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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
Judaism is a conspiracy against all races. -- Tom Metzger
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. -- Lionel Blue
Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah. -- Matisyahu
I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. -- Karen Armstrong
My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that. -- Ram Dass
The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence. -- Meir Kahane
It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things. -- Billy Connolly
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. -- Karen Armstrong
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history. -- David Gelernter
Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head. -- Roseanne Barr
These are the themes in life which are consistent in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism - of being grounded in who you are and being engaged in an unjust world. -- Cory Booker
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood. -- Moses Mendelssohn
I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice. -- Nhat Hanh
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence. -- Paulo Coelho
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. -- Parker Palmer
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish. -- Barbara Walters
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple. -- Philip Roth
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
Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God. -- Anne Graham Lotz
What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is. -- Brad Thor
I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places. -- Conor Oberst
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track. -- Ben Marcus
I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion. -- Madonna Ciccone
I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer. -- Will Self
In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well. -- Simon Schama
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. -- Jonathan Sacks
Judaism is an historical religion. -- Moses Hess
Judaism teaches everyone tolerance towards everyone. -- Csanad Szegedi
In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism. -- Chaim Potok
Judaism was not a religion but a law. -- Moses Mendelssohn
My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism. -- Trevor Noah
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing. -- Benjamin Disraeli
You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas. -- Elliott Abrams
Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity. -- Sigmund Freud
Some call it Marxism "? I call it Judaism. -- Genrikh Yagoda
Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918. -- Henry Hamilton Beamish
The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal. -- Arthur Miller
Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah. -- Solomon Schechter
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. -- Anita Diament
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. -- Berthold Auerbach
Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view. -- Vidal Sassoon
Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle -- Heinrich Heine
In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action. -- Leo Baeck
Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism. -- Elliott Abrams
I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much. -- Zubin Mehta
Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies. -- Polly Toynbee
Freemasonry, Judaism, and Occultism, whose alliance and reciprocal interpretation no longer require demonstration. -- Leon V. DePoncins
Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism. -- Wesley Snipes
I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith. -- Barack Obama
Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion. -- Elie Wiesel
As I'm getting to know Judaism, my view of the whole world is changing. -- Csanad Szegedi
It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism. -- Ignatius of Antioch
We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel... -- Jonathan Sacks
Judaism tells us in many ways how to listen and say 'Hinneni', I am here. -- Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all stem from the same Abrahamic roots. All three reject terrorism. -- H. John Poole
I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques. -- Ted Lange
We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith. -- Louis Finkelstein
Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil -- Christopher Hitchens
I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion. -- Frank Moore Cross
Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai. -- Joseph Hertz
One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy. -- Susan Jacoby
Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study. -- Norman Lamm
Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. -- Elliott Abrams
Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system. -- James Small
It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism... -- Ernest Renan
Do you know what Christianity is? We believe your religion [Judaism], but you [Jews] have to obey. -- Ann Coulter
Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam. -- Stephen Kinzer
There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant. -- James Gray
I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me...Bacon cheeseburgers. -- Shawnee Smith
The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism. -- Ovadia Yosef
I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously. -- Isla Fisher
In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study. -- Norman Lamm
Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us. -- David Novak
Traditional Judaism has always embraced the doctrine of the immortality of the soul and the ultimate resurrection of the dead. -- Meir Soloveichik
In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for. -- Reza Aslan
I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one. -- Michael Bloomberg
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ. -- Timothy Radcliffe
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron. -- Judith Plaskow
Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism? -- Benjamin Disraeli
[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism. -- Trevor Noah
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant. -- Michael Novak
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. -- Karl Marx
I'm proud to be a member of a society that is based, whose values are based on Christiany, Judaism and humanism. -- Geert Wilders
Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual. -- Martin Amis
One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity! -- Eli Of Kittim
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn. -- Michael Novak
In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken. -- Padma Lakshmi
Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism. -- Steven Pinker
Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam." -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Judaism is not a religion. At best, it is a racial credo, designed to maintain racial cohesion, in this case the Khazar bloodlines. -- Henry Makow
Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community. -- David Novak
And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero. -- Eric Bolling
The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question. -- Michael Novak
I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam. -- Madonna Ciccone
This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel) -- Uri Orbach
The difference between the three Abrahamic religions: Christianity - mumbling to the ceiling, Judaism - mumbling to the wall, Islam - mumbling to the floor. -- Bill Maher
I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people -- Gore Vidal
There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it. -- Lorene Scafaria
Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability. -- Ben Marcus
Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful. -- Meir Soloveichik
Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism. -- David Novak
While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip. -- Kola Boof
Judaism reognized the home as being a co-partner with the synagogue in the nurturing of spirituality, and accorded the woman, as primary home-maker, the greatest consideration. -- Jeff Cohen
...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures. -- Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov
Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally. -- Louis Finkelstein
The science of anti-Semitism has as its object Judaism as a social problem, being thus, necessarily, the synthesis of all sciences that can contribute to its solution. -- A. C. Cuza
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the Land of Israel for them. -- David Novak
Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had. -- Bernard Lewis
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish. -- Tony Judt
The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom. -- Timothy Radcliffe
Abraham is the shared ancestor of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He stands at the heart of these three faiths. And yet you know almost nothing about him. -- Bruce Feiler
The relation between Judaism, Zionism, and Messianism is one that is often hard for Jews to get straight. Needless to say, it is even harder for non-Jews. -- David Novak
It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be very dogmatic and then open up. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism. -- David Novak

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