Sara Sheridan

My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix.

Scottish Writer

Laura Moser

I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.

American Author

Ross Douthat

Jewish Americans weren't just integrated, like other ethnic and religious groups. They also attracted a particular sympathy and admiration, rooted in Holocaust remembrance, affection for Israel, and a distinctive pride in the scope of their success.

Gregg Easterbrook

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

Lauren Bacall

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

American Actress

Geraldine Brooks

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

Australian Journalist

Chantal Akerman

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

Belgian Director

Meir Kahane

We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.

American Clergyman

Reuven Rivlin

Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.

Israeli Politician

Ken Livingstone

Jewish voters are not one homogenous block.

English Politician

Understand 'Jewish' refers to a culture and religion; use respectfully to avoid offense.

Cultural Sensitivity

Know that 'Jewish' can refer to cultural, religious, or ethnic aspects of the Jewish people.

Judaism Aspects

Recognize that Jewish practices and beliefs vary widely among individuals.

Variation in Practice

In most Jewish traditions, a person is Jewish if their mother is Jewish.

Matrilineal Descent

Non-Jews can convert to Judaism; then they're also called Jewish.

Conversion Possibility

Jewish people come from diverse ethnic backgrounds, not just Middle Eastern or European.

Ethnic Diversity

 Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it. "Hotel Rwanda" watchers have joined it. It is a cacophonous movement. To call it a movement, as with all movements, perhaps, is a little misleading. It's diverse. It's got a lot of different approaches. It's got all the ups and the downs of movements.

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