Judaism Quotes

"Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures."
-David K Shipler

"The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is a difference between eating a hamburger and eating a bowl of cereal. For one of them, a living creature had to be killed. Should we ever become so casual about the eating of meat that we lose sight of that distinction, a part of our humanity will have shriveled and died."
-Rabbi Harold Kushner

"Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense."
-Calvin Trillin

"Judaism is everything ? it's emotional, intellectual, metaphysical. Here I was looking for all these things and it was in my own backyard."
-Lieba Schwartz

"I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques."
-Ted Lange

"His own beliefs about Judaism are not consistent with Judaism. He is challenging Jewish law—that is blatantly insincere."
-Gary Friedman

"I believe he was able to soothe her. She actually became more devoted to Judaism ... and more comfortable, and also the pain in her eased."
-Gilbert Levine

"I think the Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic church have done a lot to change people's interest in Judaism. They're hearing from churches that it's a way to enhance their own faith."
-Robert Wexler

"Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions."
-Berthold Auerbach

"Politics, Society & Religion under Islam, Christianity & Judaism."
-Charles Kimball

"This is a series on cultural impact, ... I'm not writing an introduction to Judaism, or even the Bible."
-Thomas Cahill

"This is an academic program, not a Jewish or Israeli lobbying group, ... We will teach Judaism as a culture and as a history."
-Dwayne Carpenter

"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things."
-Billy Connolly