The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.
Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
Torah values are the ones that inform my life.
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'