Quotes About Jewish

Like the London merchant bankers, the early Jewish bankers on Wall Street had started out as dry-goods merchants: the Lehmans began as Alabama cotton brokers; Goldman, as the owner of a Pennsylvania clothing store, Kuhn and Loeb, as Cincinnati clothiers; and Lazard, in a New Orleans dry-goods business.

Betty had a Jewish mother's implicit faith that expensive lessons and tightly scheduled days of activity will produce healthy, wealthy, nonneurotic offspring.

On May 9, 1916, the British and French entered into a clandestine treaty on how they intended to carve up the region. The treaty was the Sykes-Picot, named for the negotiators. Always described as infamous, the treaty ignored both Jewish aspirations and Sharif Husain's personal ambitions. And so Palestine became the 'twice promised land.

Heisenberg, who was attempting to hold German physics together, resented Schrödinger's departure, "since he was neither Jewish nor otherwise endangered.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

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

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

The most certain and well-attested fact about Jesus of Nazareth is that he was tried, sentenced and executed by the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate on a charge of high treason. This does not make him unique. Many thousands of Jewish rebels and revolutionaries were crucified by the Roman rulers of Palestine during this period.

It can be seen as being between Jewish inter-nationalists and the remnants of a Russian national culture.

The breakdown of society will force the building of a new model--emulating the Jewish people in Babylon 3500 years ago.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

The second time there were four blood moons on Jewish holy days in successive years was in 1949 and 1950. Israel became a nation in one day on May 14, 1948 but was not established as a government until 1949. The third time it happened was in 1967 and 1968. The Jews took full control of the city of Jerusalem in 1967 after the Six Day War. The fourth and last time it happened was in 2014 and 2015. And in those years we also saw a total and a partial solar eclipse on Jewish holy days.

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.

Jeff and I signed a Jewish marriage contract, a ketubah, promising to cherish each other in the "way that Jewish men and women had cherished each other through the ages." This probably doesn't refer to King Solomon, who reportedly had 700 hundred wives and 300 concubines but much of the document was written in Hebrew so we really have no idea what we agreed to.

Without protest, officers in The Hague supervised the transport of Jewish prisoners, and some even agreed to work as guards in Westerbork.

We can establish a Jewish and democratic state, but the burden of proof is on us.

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

Emerging from embattled and humble beginnings, the Jewish state has exceeded all expectations for its success and prosperity.

I would like to say that the National Front has never been anti-Semitic. Not only am I not anti-Semitic, but I have explained to my Jewish compatriots that the movement that is most able to protect them is the National Front.

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

The burden is on the Jewish majority in Israel to prove that the definition of their country as Jewish and democratic is not a contradiction.

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

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

I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunately, their voices are not necessarily heard as loudly as they should be.