“No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.” GuiltJewVersionsPriestsPsychiatrist Author:Nan Goldin
“I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.” PeopleYoungCultureStreetsComfortableModelsSkinsMeetingsWestJewIsraelResistanceObsessedBobPalestinianCastingJerusalemMarley Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Growing up after the Second World War in a Jewish family, I really understand that, and have members of my family who are very committed to this concept. My grandfather's first name was Israel and he thought it was his country. In my own sense of this issue as an American Jew, I have been on both sides of this. At this point I think it is very important for there to be separation of religion and state. It's not good for Jews. It's not good for Muslims. It's not good for Christians. The marriage of state and religion is inherently problematic.” ThinkingWorldFirstsHas BeensImportantWarCountryStatesChristianNamesSidesMy OwnGrowing UpIssuesGrowingMembersConceptsMy FamilyCommittedJewIsraelSeparationWar Of The WorldsWorld War IGrandfatherBoth SidesMy GrandfatherSecond World WarJewish Family Author:Jill Stein
“Take empathy, something added to human nature very recently and moving as we speak. Less than 300 years ago, Christians were enjoying watching a bear and dogs fight in a pit, racing Jews like horses, and had a life expectancy of less than 50 years. Today there are vegans who won't kill a fly, and yet wars too.” YearsHumansWarTodayChristianMovingFightingSpeakEnjoyDogHuman NatureBearsEmpathyYears AgoHorseJewVeganRacingPitsExpectancyLife ExpectancySpeak Less Author:Frank Schaeffer
“The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country - very small, about the size of New Jersey. And both of them are right. Both of them have no other homeland as peoples. As individuals, maybe, but not as a people.” PeopleTwoCountryIndividualLandTragedySizeJewPalestinianJerseyIsraeliHomelandNew JerseySmall Countries Author:Amos Oz
“I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a character who will be the spokesperson of the Israeli Left, another one will be the spokesperson of the Right, another one will be the spokesperson of Middle Eastern Jews, European Jews, religions Jews and so on.” CharacterLeftMiddlePicksRegardJewDesksEasternIsraeliProtagonistsPersonification Author:Amos Oz
“"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.” CountryStatesNovelJewTitlesFuturistic Author:Amos Oz
“Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.” WorldReasonDreamCoursesFatherCryBiggerJewIsraelRedemptionImperfectFoundingEntiretyBigger Than Life Author:Amos Oz
“The roots of anti-Semitism is a complex question - if I think about why I was open to these thoughts, it was because I had never met any Jews before and therefore I could believe all the stereotypes of these people.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveMetsRootsComplexesJewStereotypeAnti Semitism Author:Csanad Szegedi
“There would be those of us who say that in many ways, you worry about what the Jews in Israel are doing to themselves. Yes, they may at the moment have incredible power and are supported almost unconditionally by especially America, but most of the West as well. Yet what they are doing is contrary to the best teaching and highest teachings of their faith.” WayWellsMayMomentsWould BeAmericaWorryTeachingHighestWestIncrediblesJewIsraelContraryBest Teaching Author:Desmond Tutu
“Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?” WorldYearsHas BeensWarLastsTurnsFiveExampleYears AgoVictimJewExtremesMinistersWar Of The WorldsFive YearsPrimeTrendsMuseumsWorld War IiWorld War IReplacedPrime MinisterStatuesExhibitsHungaryHungariansLecturingBudapest Author:Adam Hochschild
“If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are, it's tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.” IfsWantChildrenRealJobsRiskOur ChildrenBlameJewYour ChildrenImmigrantsTargetWagesRefugeeTempting Author:Adam Hochschild
“The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination, as were the Jews of Europe, and which is the term used in the most important international law related to concerned Indigenous Peoples, as the only international human rights law that pertains specifically to collectivities of people rather than individuals.” PeopleHumansImportantGovernmentHappensLawUsedIndividualTermRightsEuropeConcernedImportanceInternationalHuman RightsJewRelatedGenocideIndigenousAccusationInternational LawIndigenous PeopleExterminationCollectivity Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented; each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.” PeopleWantTodayNamesIndividualSpeakActingRightsMassJew Author:Indira Gandhi
“Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.” JewRevolt Author:Indira Gandhi
“I know many Catholic priests and nuns who use the Buddhist teachings to become better Catholics, and Jews who use them to become better Jews. Why not?! It just takes us towards more deeply recognizing our original nature, which is what we all share after all.” KnowsUseShareTeachingOriginalsCatholicJewBuddhistPriestsWhy NotRecognizingNun Author:Tenzin Palmo
“If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!” IfsKnowsWantLongUseHomeBigsGuyBlackHotJewShopsHatsOrthodoxBobUnclesCoatsCurvesAdviseStylishKettlesFedoras Author:Terry Pratchett
“When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.” MenShouldRightsInfluenceEqualAccountsJewGrantedEqual RightsCivicsHegel Author:Walter Kaufmann
“I visited the Ethiopian National Project which was created by the government to fully integrate Ethiopian Jews into Israel's society. They're still facing a lot of challenges with poverty, unemployment but the Ethiopian National Project is really doing an extraordinary job in empowering the Ethiopian community to be successful.” StillsGovernmentJobsCommunityChallengesPovertySuccessfulProjectsExtraordinaryJewIsraelEmpoweringBeing SuccessfulUnemploymentIntegrating Author:Cory Booker
“One of the great things about America is that we have the freedom to worship or not worship as we please. It doesn't matter whether you're a Christian, Jew, Muslim. It doesn't matter whether you're an evangelical or a Catholic or a moderate Jew. You're entitled to worship - or an agnostic or atheist.” MatterChristianAmericaPleaseWorshipCatholicAtheistJewGreat ThingsEntitledAgnosticModeratesEvangelical Author:Karl Rove
“Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of being anti-Semitic, simply because he teaches our people to go into business for ourselves and take over the economic leadership in our own community.” PeopleHas BeensAmericaBlackCommunityBehindsTeachEconomicGuiltJewGuiltyBlack PeopleHonorableMuhammadElijahAccusingAnti SemiticElijah MuhammadHonorable Elijah Muhammad Author:Malcolm X
“Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistines for the Jews, why can't Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro?” IfsMenFormBlackWhiteProtectJewGods WillFoeJehovahCrackersPhilistines Author:Malcolm X
“The black man in America's position is parallel with that of the Jews, especially when the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. And at no time did Moses in the Bible ever try and integrate the Hebrews into the Egyptian society or accept any hypocritical offers made by the slave master of that day.” MenTryingMadeAmericaBlackAcceptingPositionMastersOffersSlaveJewBondageParallelsMosesIntegratingHebrewEgyptianHypocriticalPharaohs Author:Malcolm X
“The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.” MenAmericaBlackModernLandTypeJewStrangerRejectedBondagePharaohs Author:Malcolm X
“That was unfortunate. I should have compared religion with religion and compared Islam not with Trinity College but with Jews, because the number of Jews who have won Nobel Prizes is phenomenally high.” ShouldNumbersCollegeShould HaveIslamJewPrizeUnfortunateNobelNobel PrizeTrinityTrinity College Author:Richard Dawkins
“Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. That would have been a fair comparison.” WayDoeHas BeensCultureRacePureIntellectualFairsTraditionIslamJewPursuitComparisonSympathetic Author:Richard Dawkins
“Ironically, I originally wrote the tweet with Jews and thought, That might give offense. And so I thought I better change it.” GivingMightJewOffenseTweet Author:Richard Dawkins
“I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.” ThinkingHas BeensPercentJewPrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:Richard Dawkins
“Most of the ones [Nobel prizes] that have gone to Muslims have been peace prizes, and the [number of Muslims] who have gotten them for scientific work is exceedingly low. But in Jews, it is exceedingly high.” Has BeensNumbersGoneLowsJewPrizeNobelNobel Prize Author:Richard Dawkins
“Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that they will help us later. But when you look at what we admire as the most generous manifestations of altruism, they are not based on kin selection or reciprocity. An extreme example might be Oskar Schindler risking his life to save more than a thousand Jews from the gas chambers. That's the opposite of saving his genes.” TryingLooksMayHelpingMightShareExampleThousandMembersExpectationsOppositesJewExtremesAdmireSavingGrantedManifestationGenerousGasGenesAltruismDnaSelectionChamberFamily MembersReciprocityGas ChambersSchindler Author:Richard Dawkins
“For example, when my father was able to buy a secondhand car in the late 1930s, and he took us to the countryside for a weekend, if we looked for a motel to stay in we had to see if it said "restricted" on it. "Restricted" meant no Jews.” IfsSaidAbleFatherCarExampleLateJewWeekendCountryside1930sMotels Author:Noam Chomsky
“There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law was passed. Before that, there was an Oriental Exclusion Act, but other than that, European immigrants like my parents were generally admitted in the early years of the twentieth century. But that ended in 1924 with an immigration law that was largely directed against Jews and Italians.” KnowsYearsFirstsChildrenLawParentCenturyPolicyMajorsJewImmigrationImmigrantsTwentieth CenturyExclusionImmigration Laws Author:Noam Chomsky
“It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to Japan, with the expectation that they would then be sent to the United States. But they weren't accepted, so they stayed in Japan.” StatesStoriesGovernmentUnitedKnownUnited StatesExpectationsJewAcceptedJapanSplitsNaziPolishPolandPactLesser Known Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's an interesting book called The Fugu Plan, written by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz, which describes the circumstances when European Jews came to Japan, a semi-feudal society.” BookInterestingPlansWrittenCircumstancesJewJapanMaryMarvinInteresting Book Author:Noam Chomsky
“After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to investigate the situation in the camps and it was a pretty gloomy report. There were very few Jews admitted into the United States.” WorldWarStatesPresidentUnitedSituationUnited StatesJewWar Of The WorldsReportsCampsWorld War IiWorld War IRefugeeGloomyTrumanRefugee Camps Author:Noam Chomsky
“A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good Human Material. That's what they wanted sent to Palestine for colonization and for the eventual conflict that took place some years later. These policies were somewhat complementary to the U.S. policy of pressuring England to allow Jews to go to Palestine, but not allowing them here. The British politician Ernest Bevin was quite bitter about it, asking, "if you want to save the Jews, why send them to Palestine when you don't admit them?"” IfsWantYearsHumansDoneWantedStudyPolicyMaterialsPoliticianConflictEnglandAskingJewBritishBitterTitlesAllowingScholarPalestineTranslationsIsraeliHebrewColonizationComplementary Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion about Harvard, and indeed the school's president, James Conant, did block Jewish faculty. He was the one who prevented European Jews from being admitted to the chemistry department - his field - and also had pretty good relations with the Nazis.” LongBookSchoolPresidentInterestingWrittenFieldsThirdsRelationJewBlockDiscussionDepartmentFacultyChemistryTowersNaziHarvardIvoryIvory TowerInteresting Book Author:Noam Chomsky
“Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is true about other waves of immigrants, like the Jews in the 1950s.” PoliticalWaveJewAcceptedImmigrantsPolitical Systems Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you take a look at places like Harvard, it's striking. In the early ,50s, I think there were a handful of Jewish professors, three or four. But by the 1960s, there were Jewish deans and administrators. In fact, one of the reasons why MIT became a great university was because they admitted Jews whereas Harvard did not.” IfsThinkingLooksReasonFactsThreeFourUniversityJewReason WhyProfessorsHandful1960sHarvardDeanAdministratorsMit Author:Noam Chomsky
“Now, Jews integrate but they don't destroy their institutions. They don't close the synagogue. They don't stop having special Jewish graveyards. They don't stop having special Jewish holidays. Why can't we understand that we can have things special to us and still comingle and integrate with others.” StillsSpecialInstitutionsJewHolidayIntegratingGraveyardSynagogue Author:John Henrik Clarke
“We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.” PeopleGivingLongStatesUnitedUnited StatesRightsGenerationsMovementRight NowGiving UpHistoricalJewArguingCivil RightsLong AgoUnfortunateAsiaInitialsIndigenousGeographyCivil Rights Movement Author:John Henrik Clarke
“People get overwhelmed with folklore as fact. Take the Exodus. The Exodus did not occur. It could not have occurred. Wasn't necessary for it to occur. The Jews walked into Africa over a 16-mile land until they built the Suez Canal - that land is still there. Why would they have to leave by the sea. They didn't come by the sea. Certain people think you are against their religion when you use common sense.” PeopleThinkingStillsFactsUseCertainCommonSeaLandBuiltJewMilesCommon SenseOverwhelmedFolkloreCanalsExodus Author:John Henrik Clarke
“I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.” ThinkingWayDoeInfluenceJewOrthodoxPractiseJewish Religion Author:Michael Marmot
“Jews are told that they should spend their lives helping others and when they make a lot of money it really bothers them. So, as a way to decrease their guilt, they try to help the underdog. They think, "Why should I be rich when so many suffer?" They feel better once they run to the party that claims to defend the underdog, the Democrats.” ThinkingWayFeelsShouldTryingHelpingRunningSufferingPartyRichClaimsGuiltDemocratJewHelping OthersBotherLots Of MoneyFeel BetterShould IDecreaseUnderdog Author:Jackie Mason
“Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do.” ThinkingWayPoorClassVoteJewWorking ClassFranklinFranklin Delano RooseveltSiding Author:Jackie Mason
“As a class, Jews give three times as much money to charity as anybody else, but they feel guilty about their wealth anyway. They simply can't accept the idea of ever being Republicans.” GivingFeelsIdeasThreeWealthAcceptingClassRepublicanCharityJewGuiltyThree Times Author:Jackie Mason
“Jews are living in the past and they can't get over it.” PastJewOver ItGet OverLiving In The Past Author:Jackie Mason
“I'm not anti-anything. I'm not anti-Jew or Gentile, I'm not anti-white, but I am pro-black. I am pro my people. And I love us so much that it gets on my nerves when we do stupid things.” PeopleBlackWhiteStupidJewNervesStupid ThingsGentiles Author:Stephen A. Smith
“I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.” FactsFeltGrowing UpGrowingBrotherJewMy BrotherWasps Author:Carrie Fisher
“If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.” IfsThinkingWayShouldTwoNamesWhiteCasesMysteryColorUltimatePhilosophicalJewAbstractPrimitiveBiblicalExistentialDeitiesBeardTwo WaysDescribingMislead Author:Frank Moore Cross