For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
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I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.
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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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