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The Jewish community has always taken care of its own. -- Lee Whitnum
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community. -- Anita Diament
The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too. -- Gregg Sulkin
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness. -- Billy Graham
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. -- Jon Porter
I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well. -- Adam Hasner
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays. -- Anita Diament
Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world. -- Jon Porter
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
I came when I was in high school as part of a student exchange program with the Jewish Community Center in New Jersey, to Ramat Eliyahu. You come and volunteer for five weeks at a day camp. I was a teenager - I couldn't really appreciate it as much, and now I come back as an adult and I can really get the flavor of the city, and I love it. -- Zach Braff
If you aren't any religion, how will you know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center? -- Judy Blume
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
I will never apologize to the Jewish community for telling the truth -- Louis Farrakhan
I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community. -- Anita Diament
Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for. -- Ken Livingstone
No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States. -- Menachem Begin
Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school. -- Clara Mamet
People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor. -- Noam Chomsky
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL. -- Jami Attenberg
There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews. -- Mary Antin
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. -- David Novak
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
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
I have no patience for those in the American Jewish community who just go around slandering people as anti-Semites without realizing that what they're doing is really trivializing anti-Semitism. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
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. -- Daniel Boulud
When you mercilessly fire deadly bullets at innocent people taking part in a debate, when you attack the Jewish community, you attack our democracy, we will do everything possible to protect our Jewish community. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
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. -- Joel Coen
In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical injustice . . . Until this is recognized, discussion of the Middle East crisis cannot even begin. -- Noam Chomsky
We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and anti-body teachings. It's a lot easier to fit affirmation of sexuality and gender. -- Jay Michaelson
...I am an outsider, a lesbian, a shikse. The Jewish community is not my community. But as a Jew--as a Jew in a Christian, anti-Semitic society--the Jewish community is, and will always remain, my community. Enemy and ally. -- Irena Klepfisz
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
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
If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government's attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived. -- Els Borst
I grew very skeptical of certain kind of Jewish separatism in my youth. I mean, I saw the Jewish community was always with each other; they didn't trust anybody outside. You'd bring someone home, and the first question was, 'Are they Jewish, are they not Jewish?' -- Judith Butler
I and others like me believe Timerman was chosen by President Kirshner, first as Argentina's U.N. ambassador and then as foreign minister, among other reasons because he does not hide his Jewishness and his relations with the Jewish community and, therefore, can be a 'fig leaf' for her policy. -- Pepe Eliaschev
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
Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as loving human beings. Like Moses responding to the travail of his brothers (Ex. 2:11), a caring halachic Jewish community should respond seriously to the heartfelt appeal of our contemporary sisters. -- Vanessa L Ochs
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
I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world. -- Charlemagne Palestine
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
The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community. -- Joshua Cohen
There is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it's not monolithic. -- Barack Obama
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The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon. -- David Klinghoffer
I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school. -- Jill Stein
A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt. -- David Novak
I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want. -- Rashida Jones
Other unsolved murders or untimely deaths were readily blamed on the supposedly sinister Jews: If a Jewish doctor failed to save a life, the whole Jewish community might be attacked and fined. -- Robert Winder

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