Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.
For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
Judaism is not just a religion but a people, and the food and customs of one part of the people is connected to the other part of the people. They are part of a larger story.
Judaism is interesting in that there is something there that I think you just can't understand if you're not a Jew - it moves into a realm of true mystery.
It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.
Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept.
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.