As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew. – Peter Riegert
Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but there the similarity in their backgrounds ends. – Robert Gottlieb
The burden is on the Jewish majority in Israel to prove that the definition of their country as Jewish and democratic is not a contradiction. – Reuven Rivlin
There are pop managers, and then there’s Simon Cowell, who isn’t gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He’s not without interest but he doesn’t exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein. – Peter York
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. – Richard Rogers
I don’t feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state. – Yair Lapid
The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication. – Simon Schama
I’m not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian – I’m just not interested in that argument. – T Bone Burnett
Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. – Theodor Herzl
The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. – Vanessa Bayer
The Jewish exodus from North Africa, in the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties, brought hundreds of thousands of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian Jews to France. – Tom Reiss
I’m Jewish; I’m not religious at all, and I wouldn’t pretend to know anything about Catholic politics. – Stephen Frears
