Chabad is very important because without Jewish education, Diaspora Jewry would disappear. – Harry Triguboff
Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel’s territory into the West Bank. – Ian Lustick
I’m 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish. – Heather Matarazzo
Maybe there’s something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type. – Hanna Rosin
I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town. – Israel Horovitz
There’s never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant. – James Gray
Watching ‘Girls,’ it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters. – Jill Soloway
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. – Jesse Eisenberg
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community. – Anita Diament
‘Cullum’ is Scottish, but I’m nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry. – Jamie Cullum
Israeli Arabs don’t have to go. But if they stay, they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state. – Avigdor Lieberman
Hamas is a terror organization with a covenant that speaks about the elimination of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. They are not partners for negotiations. – Ariel Sharon
President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust. – Ben Shapiro
I’m no more or less Jewish than any other Jew. Israel has survived because we haven’t forgot our Judaism, but there are some Israelis who did forget. – Arcadi Gaydamak
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life. – Anita Diament
I’m a mongrel in the sense that I’m Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south – all these things are mixed in me. – Ariel Dorfman
The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state. – Aaron Klein
We established Israel as a Jewish country. I want to provide an Israel that is a Jewish, Zionist country. – Avigdor Lieberman
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state. – Alan Dershowitz
