#jewish

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

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#brethren #came #come #desire #did

I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews. ↗

— Sloane Crosley

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#jewish #humor

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. ↗

— Richard Rogers

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#families #family #italian #jewish #then