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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.

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.

The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell.

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

Sephardic Jews were always known as good cooks.