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Jewish Community Quotes

The most important fact to know about the Christian Church in the two hundred years after Jesus' death is that only at the end of this period did the Church comprise as many people as the far-flung Jewish community numbered (five million) in the Roman Empire. Christianity developed an intense rivalry with Judaism, and for many decades was compared to the Jews as a minority. This accounts for the intense anti-Semitism that became enshrined in Christianity by 200 A.D.
- Norman F Cantor

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.
- Joel Coen

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
- Anita Diament

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
- Anita Diament

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
- Anita Diament

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
- Richard Dreyfuss

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
- Billy Graham

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
- Arthur Hertzberg

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.
- William L Jenkins

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.
- Jon Porter

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.
- Jon Porter

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