Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Jewish leaders were intent on discovering and laying claim to their heritage in the region. They took an intense interest in archaeology, embarking on quests to bring significant items of Judaica to Palestine.
Ronen Bergman
HeritageJewishArchaeologyBring
I didn't choose Goldberg because I wanted to be the flagship for the Jewish movement, not by any stretch of the imagination. I chose Goldberg because no one else can own it.
Bill Goldberg
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I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
Marvin Olasky
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You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.
Ayelet Waldman
MotherDressYouSheJewishJeans
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
Michael Novak
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It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
Alan Dershowitz
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I'm from Manhattan. I'm some Jewish girl from the Upper West Side.
Julia Garner
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
Theodore Bikel
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The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.
Joshua Cohen
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My grandmother - my mother's mother - was a German Jewish refugee, an only child who came here from Berlin in 1936 at the age of 17.
Sarah Gavron
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My mother was a Jewish General Patton.
Don Rickles
MotherJewishGeneralPatton
I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.
Margarita Levieva
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I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
David Steinberg
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Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been Jewish, and I wouldn't be surprised if all my future main characters were as well.
Lauren Weisberger
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I'll tell you now that I hate myself for many reasons, but being Jewish is not one of them.
Clive Sinclair
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I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.
Heather Matarazzo
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I'm no more or less Jewish than any other Jew. Israel has survived because we haven't forgot our Judaism, but there are some Israelis who did forget.
Arcadi Gaydamak
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I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.
Francisco Goldman
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For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.
Ariel Sharon
PeacePeopleMeSecurityJewish
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
Daniel Libeskind
LifeFutureHistoryHumanJewish
I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.
Armie Hammer
MeLooksSometimesHardJewishHalf
My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.
Elayne Boosler
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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
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My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Sumeria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.
Benjamin Netanyahu
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