Jewish Practice Quotes

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism.

A traditional rabbi is the man to whom the community and its members turn to rule on what Jewish law requires of them, particularly in cases of doubt.

Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

It's no secret that I wear a kippa.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They were the people of The Book in the truest sense of the word. They knew of no greater joy than the study of man and human relations, which they called Torah, Talmud, Mussar, Cabala.

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

I study Torah all the time.

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.