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There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant. -- James Gray
Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb. -- Josh McDowell
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. -- Richard Rogers
I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue. -- Jill Soloway
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it. -- Herman Wouk
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition. -- Eve Ensler
Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right. -- Naomi Wolf
I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material. -- Michael Sandel
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'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep appreciation for the power of the universe. No, not the power of the universe, but just celebrating life. -- Louie Schwartzberg
For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs. -- Bill McCartney
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves. -- Judith Butler
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish. -- Fred Melamed
I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice. -- Rachel Sklar
When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that. -- Peter Singer
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah. -- David Novak
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter. -- David Novak
Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the holidays to keep the traditions and the culture going, but I truly don't have a great feeling about any particular organized religion, and I don't think it's right to impose one on my kids. -- Rhea Perlman
In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness. -- Israel Shenker
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality. -- Elie Wiesel
In Jewish tradition the Talmud is said to have been given on Sinai. -- Elie Wiesel
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war, -- Yitzhak Shamir
The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. -- Albert Einstein
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition. -- Gloria Steinem
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
There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come. -- Michael Sandel
I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night. -- Woody Allen
I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings. -- Michael Sandel
It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory. -- Elie Wiesel

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