Jewish Holidays Quotes

I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

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

I've been working with Jews for over 20 years.

I'm Jewish, and so religion, to me, is a kind of moral code and a kind of history.

My husband is Jewish.

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

The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

In Judaism, almost every ritual entails either food or the absence of food. Yom Kippur, for instance, is the absence of food. Part of it is Talmudic, part of it is custom. So much of Judaism was bound up in dietary laws. So everything you ate - the very act itself - was part of religion.

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've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew.

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

I'm a Jew.

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.

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!

It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

I'm very spiritual and I'm Jewish by faith. I'm not a practising Jew, I'm more of a recreational Jew. I celebrate the holidays and I try to inform my kids about their heritage because I think we all at some point have to defend our heritage and if they get picked on I want them to know why.

Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.

I've never dated a Jewish woman.

I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out.

I was the kind of Jew who'd be in a bar, somebody would say it's Yom Kippur, and I'd go, 'Really?'

Being Orthodox Jewish is kind of like being raised on like network sitcoms.

The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.