Quotes of Arthur Hertzberg - somelinesforyou

“ The Palestinians aren't going away, among other reasons, because the Arab states are not admitting them with any great enthusiasm. Therefore, unless there is a solution which gives the Palestinian Arab a stake in the region, which is not worth destroying, you are not going to have peace. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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

“ How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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

“ How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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

“ I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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

“ Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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

“ 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… ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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

“ I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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

“ I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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

“ 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

“ I think on the question of this war President - if he's a war President, I'm the commander of the American Air Force. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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. ”

- Arthur Hertzberg

“ 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… ”

- Arthur Hertzberg
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