Quotes About Tradition

I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.

I'm a cultural Jew, I was raised with it, so I'm still into it, like gefilte fish with kugel.

I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.

Every year during Dhanteras, we buy jewellery either for me or my mom, from our jeweller. It's been a ritual which we have been following for years.

Every year I buy jewelry to wear on Navami.

My family has been in the business of manufacturing exclusive handcrafted jewelry for many years.

I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.

I am very proud of being Jewish.

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

I don't know much about any of the Hasidim because the men won't talk to me because I'm a woman, and the women won't talk to me because, while I am Jewish, I'm not Hasidic.

I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.

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.

I think the lack of automatically feeling, 'Yes, the future is going to be like the present' - that is very much a Jewish thing.

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

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.

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.

One generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

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

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