Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.
Jewish people are tough people. They believe in something and believe it really strong, and I find it fascinating that a small country like Israel is as powerful as it is.
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.
Jewish comedy doesn't come out of nothing. Jewish music doesn't come out of nothing... I don't want to be part of a story where Jews are just victims or bullies - and I'm not saying that's what the Israelis are.
The Jews are used to collective eulogies, but the Jews will not die so that the Washington Post will speak well of them.
The Jewish state has so much to teach diaspora Jews about resilience, innovation, energy, and optimism.
In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.
... be it said to the honor of the Hebrew race [the Jews], we very rarely find one in the poor house, they are willing to work, and they add so much to the progress of the country.