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• I’m Jewish and I can sing and I’m alive.

  Mandy Patinkin

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• I’m half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

  Quiara Alegria Hudes

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• I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.

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• I don’t think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

  Patti Smith

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• I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It’s funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I’m not religious at all. I have no religion.

  Sarah Silverman

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• I am a Jew because the faith of Israel demands no abdication of my mind. I am a Jew because the faith of Israel demands every sacrifice of my soul. I am a Jew, because in all places where there are tears and suffering the Jew weeps. I am a Jew because in every age when the cry of despair is heard the Jew hopes.

  Edmond Fleg

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• I am as remote from Judaism as from Christianity. What binds me to Judaism is a feeling of duty, a feeling of reverence. I am tied to this religious party in the same way as I am bound to my mother, my family, my fatherland. Such feelings should not be dissected with an anatomical knife; one should not trace the deeper underlying motives, it does not help us to become better men.

  Abraham Moritz Stern

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• My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

  Maurice Sendak

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• I come from French Cajun Jewish people.

  Shia LaBeouf

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• Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

  Theodor Herzl

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• It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.

  Theodor Herzl

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• The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.

  Theodor Herzl

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• What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

  Pete Townshend

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  Tags in Theatrical, Exposure, Jewish, Character, Took, Desire

• I’m half Jewish, I’m half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It’s like, What is he doing?

  Lenny Kravitz

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• Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

  Gary Ackerman

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• For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

  Toni Morrison

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• The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

  Abraham Cahan

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• I’m short, I’m Jewish and I’m a liberal.

  Paul Wellstone

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• We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there’s a bunch of us.

  Gary Ackerman

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• The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation – which speculates upon the labor of people – will always find the means for its existence.

  Mikhail Bakunin

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