“I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.”
Billy Crystal
“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
“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
“Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.”
Camille Paglia
“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.”
Calvin Trillin
“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.”
