Judaism Quotes

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

I believe in Judaism, I was raised a Jew, I'm happy to be one - or proud to be one.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.