Jewish Community Quotes

• 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.

  Bill Jenkins

  Virginia, Hymns, Community

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• Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

  Anita Diament

  Practice, Community, Contemporary

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• 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.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Teacher, Play, Community

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• Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

  Billy Graham

  Holy Days, Years, Repentance And Forgiveness

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• The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single Jew in the world. There are reasons for the assumption that our share in this fight is of general importance. We shall start a spiritual and material war of the whole world against Germany. Germany is striving to become once again a great nation, and to recover her lost territories as well as her colonies. But our Jewish interests call for the complete destruction of Germany.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Spiritual, War, Fighting

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• 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.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Unique, Jewish Tradition, Community

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• Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Giving Money, Charity

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1948). “Aquinas Selected Political Writings”

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• 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.

  Joe Lhota

  Christian, Brother, Mean

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• The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.

  Lee Whitnum

  Taken, Community, Care

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• In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

  Jon Porter

  Pregnancy, Community, Facts

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• There is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it's not monolithic.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Community, Range

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

  Clara Mamet

  School, Community, Littles

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• The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.

  Cecil Roth

  Journey, Years, Community

  "A History of the Jews in England". Book by Cecil Roth, 3rd edition, p. 1, 1964.

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• His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

  Arthur Balfour

  Country, Religious, Home

  Letter to Lionel Walter, Lord Rothschild, 2 Nov. 1917. Known as the "Balfour Declaration."

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• We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Community, President

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• We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

  George Soros

  Compassion, Community, Forgiving

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• But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

  Judy Blume

  Community, Should, Knows

  Judy Blume (2014). “Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologise specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested.

  Mel Gibson

  Apology, Night, Thinking

  "Gibson pleas for forgiveness as series is dropped" by Dan Glaister and Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

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• I will never apologize to the Jewish community
  for telling the truth

  Louis Farrakhan

  Community, Apologizing, Telling The Truth

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• If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

  Shlomo Sand

  Community, Quality, Biology

  Shlomo Sand, Yael Lotan (2010). “The Invention of the Jewish People”, p.271, Verso

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• Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has accepted this distortion of history, and tends to regard Jesus as an apostate. How odd that the Jews would accept a Christian version of one of their brethren rather than seeking to discover the man entombed beneath the myth.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism predates the birth of Israel. Neither Israel's policies nor the critics of those policies should be held responsible for anti-Semitism. At the same time, I do believe that attitudes toward Israel are influenced by Israel's policies, and attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby's success in suppressing divergent views.

  George Soros

  Attitude, Believe, Israel

  "On Israel, America and AIPAC" by George Soros, www.nybooks.com. April 12, 2007.

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• Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Community, Important, Pork

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this. The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should.

  Jim Moran

  Strong, War, Thinking

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• [May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered to civilization by men and women of the Jewish faith. May [visitors] recall the long array of those who have been eminent in statecraft, in science, in literature, in art, in the professions, in business, in finance, in philanthropy and in the spiritual life of the world.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Art, Science

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