Words matter. These are the best Jewish Community Quotes from famous people such as Lynn Schusterman, Mikis Theodorakis, William L. Jenkins, Joel Coen, Lee Whitnum, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We in the Jewish community must ask ourselves what role we are going to play in changing policies and practices that discriminate against LGBT Americans. We have a special responsibility and civic duty to ensure that all Americans are treated with dignity and equality.
In America the Jewish community is very strong. It controls much of the economy. Certainly the mass media.
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it’s hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.
The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics – all with their own markets.
If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.
In the case of ‘Disobedience,’ the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community has was a huge invitation to explore an unknown world. And also a possible trap, and I tried to overcome that by portraying it, hopefully, with great nuance and detail and texture.
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.
Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World’s multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.
I have always had excellent cooperation with the Jewish community in Austria.
One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You’re a traitor.
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn’t be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.
There are laws in this country to protect everyone and that includes the Jewish community.
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
While our country has made great strides, the Jewish community is still the target of anti-Semitism, and we must continue to stand against all forms of hate, violence, and bigotry.
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.
I am well placed to know that Le Pen is not an anti-Semite. If one considers his life seriously… a man who went to fight with the Israelis in ’56! Many times, he tried to better the party’s relationship with the Jewish community, even though I do not like the term.
The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States.
The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.
With a successful center-right party such as ours, it is hard for the radical right to find room to operate. This is why they repeatedly attack us in the ugliest manner. They attack us more than they attack the Jewish community or the ‘Jewish conspiracy’ – which they believe exists. I am one of their main targets.
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
I have never had a problem with the Jewish community, and besides why would I have?
The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can’t say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.’
The story of the American Jewish community is one of resilience and transformation. While often facing antisemitism and discrimination, the Jewish community fought to build better lives for themselves while making this nation a better place for all.
