Jewish Practices Quotes

We were Orthodox Jews, but we really didn't deserve it. I mean, bacon - my father said, 'Don't put bacon in the house,' but we had bacon. We didn't keep kosher. And we observed which today would be Conservative Jews. But in those days, we belonged to an Orthodox temple. So we made out we were Orthodox Jews, but we really weren't.

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

I guess you could say I'm kind of Jewish but not really.

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've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate with practising Judaism. I hear the Torah every Saturday. I observe Shabbat. I say certain prayers. My son was bar mitzvahed. So this appears like I'm Jewish, but these rituals are connected to what I describe as the Tree of Life consciousness and have more to do with the idea of being an Israelite, not Jewish.

I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

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.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.

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

It's not what the rabbis say that defines Jewishness but what we Israelis do every day - our actions and our values.

When it comes to being Jewish, I can't help myself.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

Reformed Jews don't have to quite believe in God.

I'm Reconstructionist; I don't serve the Sabbath, but I go to synagogue.

Judaism is a way of thinking, more than anything else, that I think is entirely distinct, and the more you know of it, the more you can enter into that kind of thinking.

I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

My whole life has a Jewish flavour.

I knew I wanted to get married and have a family, but it was important that my husband be a Jew; I didn't want to have to explain what Hanukkah is.

Passover is the most widely observed of all the Jewish holidays, and the Passover Seder... is the most practiced of all the Jewish rituals.