Quotes About Heritage

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.

Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear.

I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.

I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

I have one identity, and that's Israeli and Jewish. I don't view myself as an American citizen.

One generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother.

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly.

There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I'm a writer. There's just no arguing with either thing. I'm just Jewish.

I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

You can't do more mama than Italian Jewish mama.

We are losing the Jewish people in the Diaspora.

The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.

I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.

Jerusalem is the holiest place for the Jewish people.

United Jerusalem has been and will forever be the capital of the Jewish People.

I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.

I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.