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Jewish Quotes

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

– Matt Lauer

My mother was a Jewish General Patton.

– Don Rickles

A convert, if he converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn’t convert through the Orthodox, he doesn’t have the Jewish gene. As simple as that.

– Eli Yishai

I’m confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

– Ed Koch

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

– Geraldo Rivera

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

– Nathan Lane

Preparing foods from other Jewish communities is broadening. It’s interesting to sample the foods of other Jewish communities and see what they developed.

– Gil Marks

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

– Noam Chomsky

I’m Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

– Margarita Levieva

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

– Michael Baden

It is essential that Christians understand this: Every Jew – secular, religious, assimilated, left-wing, right-wing – fears being killed because he is Jewish. This is the best-kept secret about Jews, who are widely perceived as inordinately secure and powerful. But it is the only universally held sentiment among Jews.

– Dennis Prager

I’m half Jewish, half Scottish. It’s hard for me to buy anything.

– David Duchovny

We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don’t have another Jewish state.

– Naftali Bennett

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

– Maurice Sendak

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

– Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.

– Meir Kahane

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren’t Jewish.

– Matisyahu

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

– Lapo Elkann

I’m Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

– Jonathan Glazer

I do have a very large Jewish population, so it’s not unusual that I would be interested in being a part of discussions and finding out what’s going on in Israel.

– Marcia Fudge

I’m rather secular. I’m basically Jewish. But I think I’m Jewish not because of the Jewish religion at all.

– Mel Brooks

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

– Kenneth Lonergan

While I am very much Jewish ‘identified,’ I’m not a very religious person.

– Jennifer Gilmore

Sherrod Brown and President Obama have lost the faith of Jewish Democrats.

– Josh Mandel

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

– Jon Porter

I’m part Jewish and part Christian, but I’m mostly Jewish.

– Joey King

I was raised Jewish. I didn’t know anything about Christianity.

– Josh Young

Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.

– Ken Livingstone

The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in that affliction. Being downtrodden often makes one more empathetic and sympathetic.

– Jerry Leiber

I’m Jewish, not Catholic, but I’m a spiritual person.

– Peter Landesman

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