#jewish

We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#blues #jewish #music

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely. ↗

— Kay Goodstadt

#brain-tumor #death #faith #food #gay

. . . there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#humor #jewish #marriage #marriage

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important. ↗

— Marek Belka

#country #culture #european #flourish #grave

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#called #declared #felt #i #jewish

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#cannot #decades #disputed #interested #jewish

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#europe #forces #good #hope #i

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. ↗

— Colin Firth

#biggest #coast #east #east coast #exceptions

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness. ↗

— Montel Williams

#blackness #country #definition #every #hispanic

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. ↗

— Melissa Gilbert

#any #education #formal #i #i was raised