Quotes by Arthur Hertzberg - Page 1

You save your soul by saving someone else's body.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Peace
Body
Saving
Soul
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I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Constant
Struggle
Talmud
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How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Bible
Book
Doubt
Rabbi
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I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Anti Semitism
Fighting
Organization
Thinking
Meal
Ticket
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Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Specific
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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.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Campus
Hunger
Speak
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I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Fundamentalism
Regard
God Hope Me
Jewish
Forms
Enemies
Quote
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When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Religion
Atheist
Views
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A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Bombers
Growing Up
People
Suicide
Large Part
Young People
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I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Grandchildren
Grandparent
Writing
Anyone Else
Hope Where Will
Hope Way Will
Invite
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My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Looks
Purpose
Stories
Classical
Jews
Success Story
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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.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Bronx
Candy
Class
Culture
Islands
Jewish Culture
Jewish
Candy Store
Classes
Ellis
Island
Lower
Store
Therefore
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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.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Common Enemy
Community
Enemy
Jewish Tradition
Judaism
Peculiar
Unique
Jewish
Lining
Preserve
Survive
To Survive
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Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Class
Going Away
Ideas
Palestinian
Position
Jewish
Look Day Will
Arabs
Go Away
Happening
Hard-Line
Pick
Status
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I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Adopted
Labor
Position
Sharon
Somewhere
Bush
Essentially
Obviously
Palestinians
Several
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Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
War
Civil War
Fighting
Fundamentalism
Teaching
West
War Government Fight
Jewish
Bank
Civil
Guns
Disobey
Jews
Orders
Several
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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!
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Assured
Country
Depth
Gamble
Moral
Nonsense
Poverty
Revolution
Social Security
Wall
Depths
Enactment
Reach
Roosevelt
Wall Street
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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.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Court
Law
People
Separation
Years
Above
Appointed
Enough People
Powers
Rises
Stays
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In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time with my children. Now, when I get an all-important call, I sometimes say that I'm having lunch with my granddaughter. And I do not apologize
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Book
Children
Teaching
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The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove that he could be a moral being...man was given dominion over nature, but he was commanded to behave towards the rest of creation with justice and compassion. Man lives, always, in tension between his power and the limits set by his conscience.
Arthur Hertzberg / Activist
Men
Angel
Compassion
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