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No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews. — H.W. Charles

Jewish men don't know anything. — Marilyn Monroe

The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community. — Joshua Cohen

I am Jewish and proud of this culturally and ethnically - the ways in which I was born this way and am happy with whom I am. — Sarah Silverman

Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses. — Salvador Dali

I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish. — Arne Glimcher

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic. — Kirk Douglas

That is a Nazi expression. The Nazis called Germans who defended Jewish rights self-hating Germans. — Israel Shahak

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves. — Jerry Seinfeld

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state. — Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well. — Jess Glynne

If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. ANCIENT JEWISH PROVERB — Daniel Silva

I know a lot about Jewish comedians. — Dana Snyder

Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers. — Ahmed Yassin

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food. — Redd Foxx

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel. — David Ben-Gurion

Sherrod Brown and President Obama have lost the faith of Jewish Democrats. — Josh Mandel

I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily. — Dan Aykroyd

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home. — Quiara Alegria Hudes

I don't want to be Jewish, I want to be British," she announces in early December. — Pamela Druckerman

The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel. — Milos Zeman

Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us. — Houston Stewart Chamberlain

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. Jewish Proverb (p. 117) — Jenny Sanford

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium. — Simon Schama

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly. — Margarita Levieva

The Jewish people, for their tiny numbers, have done superbly. They don't need me. They have Einstein. They have everybody - Maury Povich. — Geraldo Rivera

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. — Padma Lakshmi

Richard felt about as conspicuous as a foreskin at a Jewish nudist camp. — Dylan J. Morgan

Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish. — Joy Behar

Nazis were raiding French homes, looking for Jewish children. The tragedy of the year before was that Jean Moulin, one of the famed — Danielle Steel

If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior. — Albert Einstein

I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life. — Susan Jacoby

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher. — Stefan Zweig

My father belonged to a Jewish social club. — Maurice Sendak

Jewish vampires: Crosses & holy water won't hurt me whatcha gonna try next? — Tasha Turner

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie. — Rachel Dratch

I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life. — Thomas Friedman

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality. — Sandra Bernhard

...the history of the Broadway musical is the history of short Jewish men yelling at each other. — Jack Viertel

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt. — Gail Parent

-"What's that for?"
-"Have a little bread with your ice cream," she told me. — Astrid Amara

All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are. — Neil Diamond

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself. — Lauren London

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish. — Kenneth Lonergan

Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die! — Philip Roth

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses. — Mary Antin

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when? — Pirkei Avot

If I see another David Gold interview on the poor East End Jewish boy done good I'll impale myself on one of his dildos. — Simon Jordan

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in. — Gary Ackerman

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer. — Alan Furst

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. — Spike Lee

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people. — Ken Livingstone

You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty! — Jon Stewart

When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is. — Antonio Sabato Jr.

I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian. — Said Sayrafiezadeh

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin

I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow. — Wesley Clark

You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?' — Dennis Prager

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass. — Richard Lamm

and it was the pride and ambition of the Jewish people to co-operate in the front ranks to carry on the former glory of the fame of Viennese culture. — Stefan Zweig

The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people. — Winston Churchill

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community. — Anita Diament

The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden. — Lauren Bacall

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history. — H.W. Charles

Laughing has always seemed to me to be more Jewish than praying. — Sherwin Wine

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. — Marvin Olasky

Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge. — Maureen Lipman

In Britain, these Jewish refugees were greeted with a mixture of grudging acceptance by some and open hostility by others. — Thomas Harding

I'm Jewish and I can sing and I'm alive. — Mandy Patinkin

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city. — Meir Kahane

Today, Jewish defense is an accepted thing. — Meir Kahane

There's so much Botox around now that you can't tell when a Jewish girl is angry! — Mort Sahl

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. — Theodore Bikel

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, — Yitzhak Shamir

Dear, she's not tolerant at all of our being Jewish," said Mrs. Rosen. "She has no problem with it that requires any. — Michael Kroft

To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: "First comes health. You can always hang yourself later." As — Bel Kaufman

I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. — David Novak

If not you, then who? If not now, when? — Hillel First- Century Jewish Scholar

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too. — Jim Goad

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy. — Reinhold Niebuhr

A car hit a Jewish man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?" The man says, "I make a good living." — Henny Youngman

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies. — Elie Wiesel

The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon. — David Klinghoffer

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it. — Richard Wagner

I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl. — Sarah Silverman

You can't love God without loving the Jewish people. — Corrie Ten Boom

President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust. — Ben Shapiro

If you aren't any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center? — Judy Blume

And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade. — C.F. Joyce

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us. — Ralph Webster

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish. — Abbi Jacobson

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother. — Ben Elton

Early railway journeys took him to Ceylon, Thailand, and Burma; he would later describe his wanderlust as the "peripatetics of a Jewish prince". — VO Blum

I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl. — America Ferrera

I'm more Jewish than you think I am ... I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people. — Rick Perry

Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918. — Henry Hamilton Beamish

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell

The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel. — Norman Podhoretz

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. — Camille Paglia