The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.
Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country.
I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.
The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.