We enquire into and speculate on the teachings of our religion for two reasons: first, to find out for ourselves what we have learned as imparted knowledge from the prophets of God; and secondly, to be able to refute anyone who argues against us concerning anything to do with our religion. Saadia Gaon, The Book of Beliefs and Opinions
Even women and children and those with no aptitude for speculation can attain to a complete religion, for all men are on an equal footing as far as knowledge derived from the senses is concerned. Praised be God who in his wisdom ordered things thus. ibid.
A single man was created in the world, to teach that if any man caused a single soul to perish from Israel, Scripture imputes it to him as though he had caused a whole world to perish; and if any saves alive a single soul from Israel, Scripture imputes it to him as though he had saved alive a whole world. The Talmud, Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5
Moses received the Law from Sinai and committed it to Joshua, and Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the Prophets; and the Prophets committed it to the men of the Great Synagogue. They said three things: Be deliberate in judgement, raise up many disciples, and make a fence around the Law. ibid. Pirqei Avot 1:1
Love labour and hate mastery and seek not acquaintance with the ruling power. ibid. Mishnah Pirqei Avol 1:10
The tradition is a fence around the Law. ibid. Mishnah Pirqei Avot 3:14
All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given; and the world is judged by grace, yet all is according to the excess of works. ibid. Mishnah Pirqie Avot 3:16
The nation is distinguished by three characteristics; They are merciful, bashful, and benevolent. ibid. Babylonian Talmud Sotah 3b
A man who gives charity in secret is greater than Moses. ibid. Babylonian Talmud Bava Bathra 9b
Come and see ... whatever is in the earth has its parallel in the world above. There is not a single thing, however small, in the world that does not depend on something that is higher ... for everything is interdependent. Zohar 1:156b
After he had finished the image of the Chariot of Supernal Man, he descended into it and was known under the image of YHVH, so that man might apprehend him through his attributes, through each of them severally, and he was called Elo, Elohim, Shaddai, Zeva’ot na dYHVH, so that man might apprehend him through each of his attributes and perceive how the world is governed by kindness and by justice in accordance with men’s deeds. ibid. 2:42b
Judaism has the terrible tendency to lead to Christianity. Voltaire
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint
We moved from Jersey City because of the anti-Semitism. Just before the war, when the Bund was feeling its oats, the Nazis used to hold picnics in a beer garden only blocks from our house. When we drove by in the car on Sundays, my father would curse them, loud enough for me to hear, not quote loud enough for them to hear. Then one night a swastika was painted on the front of our building. ibid.
The intoxicant of anti-Semitism. That’s what I came to imagine them all so cheerfully drinking in their beer garden that day – like all the Nazis everywhere, downing pint after pint of anti-Semitism as though imbibing the universal remedy. Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
On Sabbath eves I am oppressed ... O the rotted Talmuds of my childhood! O the dense melancholy of memories! Isaac Babel, 1894-1940, Russian short-story writer
This is the bread of poverty which our fathers ate in the land of Egypt. Let all who are hungry come and eat; let all who are in need come to our Passover feast. Now we are here; next year may we be in the land of Israel! Now we are slaves; next year we may be free! Haggadah, the narration
Therefore, we are duty-bound to thank, praise, laud, glorify, exalt, honour, bless, extol, and adore him who performed all these miracles for our fathers and for us. He has brought us out from slavery to freedom, from sorrow to joy, from mourning to holiday, from darkness to great light, and from bondage to redemption. Let us, then, sing before him a new song. Hallelujah! ibid. Praise to the Redeemer of Israel
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. Brendan Behan, Richard’s Cork Leg, 1961
Can we please get the names of the Jews, big Jewish contributors to the Democrats? All right, can we please investigate some of the cocksuckers? Playhouse Presents: Nixon’s the One, Nixon to Bob Haldeman, Sky Arts 2012
I want to look at any sensitive areas around where Jews are involved, Bob. See, the Jews are all through the government. Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words, Sky Atlantic 2018
The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards. Richard Nixon
Jews are all over the government. Most Jews are disloyal to America. Richard Nixon, the Nixon tapes
Oh these Jews, these Jews. Their feelings, their hearts ... Why life? Why death? And why these particular forms? Saul Bellow, The Old System, Dr Brown
A man [Saul Bellow] who emancipated the Jews into the American artistic mainstream. Martin Amis, interview Christopher Hitchens
Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves. Golda Meir
How odd
Of God
To choose
The Jews. William Norman Ewer, 1885-1976
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Second World War. This Jewish/non-Jewish Elite used the First World War to secure the Balfour Declaration and the principle of the Jewish state of Israel. They then dominated the Versailles Peace Conference and created the circumstances which made the Second World War inevitable. They financed Hitler to power in 1933 and made the funds available for his rearmament. David Icke, And the Truth Shall Set You Free
I’ve got the classic Jewish mother. My mother is the sort of woman if I fell into a river would shout, Help! Come quick! Come quick! Come quick! My son – the university graduate – is drowning. David Baddiel, cited The 100 Greatest Stand Ups 2010
Socialism, Communism, and Bolshevism in reality are only links in the plan of world-embracing Judaism, with its final purpose of forcing the entire world under Jewish domination. Ernest F Elmhurst, The World Hoax, 1938
The origins of the synagogue, the Greek word for House of Prayer, are obscured yet seemingly ancient. John McCarthy, The Art of Faith: Judaism, Sky Arts 2008
The earliest identifiable synagogue building dates only from around 70 C.E. when the Romans destroyed the second temple in Jerusalem. ibid.
There’s no recognised historical style for synagogues. ibid.
In the mid-1650s the Lord Protector encouraged their return to London. The Christian businessmen of the capital were far from happy with this new competition. But King Charles II after his own homecoming in 1660 permitted the Jews to remain. As a symbol of their new status and the focal point for their worship the Jewish community built the Bevis Marks Synagogue. ibid.
The nineteenth century was the great age of synagogue building in Europe. ibid.
Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is where you’ll find the largest synagogue in Europe – the Dohany Street Synagogue. ibid.
Agoudas Hakehilos Synagogue Paris: Completed in 1913 the synagogue was designed by Hector Guimard, one of the principle architects associated with the style known as Art Nouveau. ibid.
In the years after the Second World War the most remarkable of modern synagogues was created by perhaps the greatest of all American architects Frank Lloyd Wright ... Beth Sholom Synagogue, Philadelphia. ibid.
No more than 40 years ago, the subjects of Christian anti-Semitism and the Christian sources of anti-Semitism were generally considered taboo. Many even denied that Christian anti-Semitism existed, seeing anti-Semitism as a non-Christian production, if not just a creation of the Jews. In recent years, research on the Holocaust, together with a growing tolerance for discussion within the churches, has revealed the crucial role played by the Church in the persecution of Jews in Christendom. Study of Christian anti-Semitism and its roots is not merely of academic interest; at bottom, Christian-Jewish relations – be they with Catholic, Protestants, or Fundamentalists – is about Christian anti-Semitism, and about efforts on the part of Christians to remove the stain of anti-Semitism. Jerome A Chanes, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, A Dark Side: Anti-Semitism Through the Ages p29
He [Carmichael] repeated the line from the song he liked so well, ‘Something is happening here, but you don’t know quite what it is, do you, Mr Jones?’ What he [Carmichael] was getting at was that the Jews were simply one strata of society who are themselves being oppressed by people who are much richer and much more powerful. In the agencies of this power he cited banks, the chief among which were Morgan Guarantee Trust and Chase Manhattan. And the Foundations connected with these monoliths. It was not long after this that Stokely Carmichael mysteriously was ousted from both SNICK and the Black Panthers. Apparently, he had learned too much. G Edward Griffin, The Capitalist Conspiracy
He [Max Schmeling, boxer] helped Jews escape Nazi Germany. In addition to the people he hid. Al Bernstein, boxing journalist