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It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.
Sally Quinn

Women, Same, Second

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
Norman Lamm

Government, Religious, Present

In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
Yitzhak Shamir

Live, Together, Forever

To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it.
Lawrence Wright

Support, Possible, Actually

This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.
Janet Suzman

Pain, Forget, Else

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.
Janet Suzman

Patriotism, Self, Put

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
Roberto Duran

Black, Everybody, White

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.
Cheech Marin

Bad, Movie, Played

My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.
Donald Tusk

Family, Live, Born

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
Martin Lewis Perl

Poverty, Left, Escape

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.
Cindy Sherman

Dad, Person, Talk

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
Arthur Hertzberg

Success, Remember, Away

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
Arthur Hertzberg

American, Story, Culture

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
Arthur Hertzberg

War, Government, Fight

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.
Peter Stuyvesant

Here, Remain, Arrived

Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?
John Banner

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.
David Duke

Trying, Country, Survival

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
Simon Wiesenthal

Bad, Conscience, Everybody

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.
Ted Koppel

Special, Common, Beyond

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

Black, Often, Far

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
A. B. Yehoshua

Great, Sense, Themselves

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
Thomas Goodwin

Both, Promise, Privilege

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
Ira Glass

Family, Money, Book

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.
Evan Sayet

Life, Medical, School

Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.
Evan Sayet

Care, Worry, Ancient

For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
Bill McCartney

Great, Past, Christian

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
Alexander Dubcek

Time, Spring, Worst

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
Jack Steinberger

Education, Power, Children

Well, I play Jews and parrots. Parrots are how I've branched out.
Gilbert Gottfried

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.
Louis Finkelstein

Today, Different, Remember

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