(55 quotes found)
“Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.”
Karen Armstrong
“Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions”
Berthold Auerbach
“While Islam is projected today as inimical and hostile to Christianity, Judaism and other Religions, the truth is that the Prophet was the great educator, teaching people the meaning and explanation of their own Religion, correcting and assisting them in following the right path, as taught by previous Prophets and messengers.”
Yusuf Islam
“I think the Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic church have done a lot to change people's interest in Judaism. They're hearing from churches that it's a way to enhance their own faith.”
Robert Wexler
“It was not a good idea. It did not take into consideration the relations between Christianity and Judaism. I decided that there will be no performance because we must stick to the message of the museum, which is truth, memory, reconciliation.”
Edward Balawejder
“Judaism is a civilization. It has history, culture, literature. It has jokes, ... Part of any civilization is its religious beliefs, and so part of Judaism is the religion of the Jew, but they are not the same thing. We're looking at the ways in which a person who is Jewish by birth, civilization, culture, context and family may look at things differently from the way a person who is Catholic and lives down the road may see them.”
Charles Isbell
“Hillel can do something about making people feel Jewish and experience Judaism as a joyous way of living. [But] the work is beyond us. The wick gets lit and we inspire students.”
Edgar Bronfman
“This is an academic program, not a Jewish or Israeli lobbying group, ... We will teach Judaism as a culture and as a history.”
Dwayne Carpenter
“Politics, Society & Religion under Islam, Christianity & Judaism,”
Charles Kimball
“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
