“ 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. ”
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“ The President gives Prayer Breakfasts. He almost invariably has at them, from the Jewish community, the most Orthodox hard-line rabbis he can find, or that can be found for him. The liberals are under-represented, or not represented at all. ”
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“ Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. ”
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“ But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide. ”
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“ How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. ”
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“ On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge. ”
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“ I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. ”
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“ Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx. ”
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“ Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. ”
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“ We are living in an America in which an Orthodox Jew was the ambassador to Cairo and kept a kosher home. America now, on Yom Kippur, semi-shuts down, including government, because so many of the administrative assistants are Jewish. ”
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“ Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx. ”
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“ My perspective on the second Bush Administration is, that for all of his big talk, it's going to be a failure. He is not going to get out of Iraq with clear-cut victory or clear-cut reconstruction, during his second term. It's going to take longer, if at all… ”
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“ How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. ”
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“ I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. ”
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“ I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. ”
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“ Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. ”
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“ Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx. ”
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“ I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. ”
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“ The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ”
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“ On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge. ”
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“ I think on the question of this war President - if he's a war President, I'm the commander of the American Air Force. ”
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“ I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. ”
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“ I was one of the founders of Peace Now. I was then a resident in Israel… I was then visiting professor at the Hebrew University, teaching Jewish history. And in the mind of Israel now, and to some degree even then, I'm not quite an outsider. ”
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“ Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and of Saudi Arabia controlled by regimes which are revolutionary, and which are Islamic fundamentalist? Mr. Bush wants that like he wants a hole in the head. ”
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“ My perspective on the second Bush Administration is, that for all of his big talk, it's going to be a failure. He is not going to get out of Iraq with clear-cut victory or clear-cut reconstruction, during his second term. It's going to take longer, if at all… ”
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