“It was more important to me to understand what it's like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.”
Ryan Gosling
“We need to become more aware of how rapidly the definitions of what it means to be Jewish are changing. The philanthropic community must not shy away from confronting the difficult issues of identity and continuity these transformations raise.”
Mark Charendoff
“I had given several courses on Jewish Supreme Court justices. We understand there had been some Jews who weren't that nice, and it's desirable to talk about the bad with the good.”
Norman Olsen
“It was Spanish Jewry, not Spanish jewelry, that paid for Columbus' voyage of discovery.”
Mel Wacks
“From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson.”
Israel Shenker
“Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.”
Calvin Trillin
“There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.”
