Jewish Community Quotes

Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism predates the birth of Israel. Neither Israel's policies nor the critics of those policies should be held responsible for anti-Semitism. At the same time, I do believe that attitudes toward Israel are influenced by Israel's policies, and attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby's success in suppressing divergent views.

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

All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.

Jewishness is a very big part of my identity. I am a proud Jew, I would say, who doesn't practice very actively.

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

I actually think that the president owes the Jews of Europe an apology. They deserve better from the President of the United States. Anti-semitism is on the rise, and somebody must stick up for them.

If we allow the Jews to have dwellings amongst us, why should we not allow them to have synagogs [houses of worship]?

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

[Jews have] a particular need, evidently greater than that of any others, to pay more careful attention to education.

The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's 2% and they control America.

I first discovered the Jewish People in America. I have seen any number of Jews, but the Jewish People I never met in Berlin or elsewhere in Germany. This Jewish People that I found in America came from … Eastern Europe generally. These men and women still retain a healthy ethnic feeling. It has not yet been destroyed by the process of atomization and dispersion.

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.

While I've been in Congress, I've never experienced a whiff of anti-Semitism. In my life, I have experienced very little.

Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.

I try to be a good shiksa wife. I go to Central Synagogue in New York.

If the Arab citizen will feel at home in our state … if the state will help him in a truthful and dedicated way to reach the economic, social, and cultural level of the Jewish community, then Arab distrust will accordingly subside and a bridge will be built to a Semitic, Jewish-Arab Alliance.

Jews are an important part of our kingdom, and I am happy you chose to gather here in our country.

Estonia is proud of the fact that the country today has a flourishing and happy Jewish life.

You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

The founder of the BDS movement is blatantly anti-Semitic.

Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the State of Israel has given Jews a political presence in the world they have not had since biblical times.

With a successful center-right party such as ours, it is hard for the radical right to find room to operate. This is why they repeatedly attack us in the ugliest manner. They attack us more than they attack the Jewish community or the 'Jewish conspiracy' - which they believe exists. I am one of their main targets.