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I am from Jerusalem, but because Titus destroyed the Temple, I was born in Poland. S. Y. Agnon, 1966

His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed in any other country.--Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour writes to Baron Rothschild, 2 November 1917.

The Talmud teaches that Mount Sinai, which means "mountain of hatred," earned its name because the Ten Commandments that were given there made the Jewish people the most hated nation on Earth. The world does not want a conscience, and the Earth's inhabitants have always sought freedom from a moral code. [...]
Because the Jews were entrusted by God with commandments such as "Thou shalt not kill," they immediately become the enemies of murderers. And now that America has become the moral conscience of the world by aggressively promoting liberty and justice, it too is being demonized. The Democratic Party would have us believe that there is something wrong in having the whole world oppose you. But the Jews have long known that there is honor in it as long as you are right and they are wrong. -- Schmuly Boteach, "Democrats want 'Moore' than Kerry", _Jerusalem Post_, July 28, 2004,

That this nation of England, with the inhabitants of The Netherlands, shall be the first and the readiest to transport israel's sons and daughters in thier ships to the land promised to their forefathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for an everlasting Inheritance, - Joanna and Ebenezer Cartwright, 1649 petition, quoted by Barbara Tuchman, Bible and Sword.

Some folks put "Beware of the dog" signs on their houses or fences; but the sign on Yahweh's kingdom reads "Beware of the flock." Rulers and nations who read it should shudder - especially if they have touched and butchered the sheep of his hand. Dale R Davis, Commentary on 1 Sam 15.

It is just settled: you have it, Madam. ... Four millions sterling! and almost immediately. There was only one firm that could do it - Rothschilds --Benjamin Disraeli breaks the news of the Suez Canal purchase to Queen Victoria; November 1875.

How odd
Of God
To choose
The Jews."
William Norman Ewer

But not so odd
As those who choose
a Jewish God,
But spurn the Jews."
Cecil Browne in reply to Ewer

Would you really be more proud of and more connected to your Judaism if it had nothing to say about hunger or homelessness; nothing to say about capital punishment or abortion; nothing to say about euthanasia or rationing health care; nothing to say about genetic engineering or third world debt, violence or pornography, poverty or slavery? Woud Judaism truly inspire you and uplift you, would it transform your soul and realize your dreams if it was merely a complete theory of candle lighting and bread blessing?-- Marc Gellman, "Joe Lieberman as Rorschach Test", _First Things_, Dec. 2000

It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting -- their geographical situation has been equally problematic. - Shimon Peres (1923-____)

A Jew knows that anti-Semitism is not due to Christianity, because he knows that his people were persecuted before the advent of Christianity. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Love One Another_ [1944}

No Christian hates the Jews because of the Crucifixion related in the Gospels--any more than the British hate the Americans because of the Declaration of Independence. --Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979) _Love One Another_ [1944}

I called the nane of a customer awaiting his prescription. He rose from his seat with an audible sigh. When I remarked on the sigh, he replied, " That was 6000 years of Jewish history'. - GJW

Recently at a public banquet I happened to sit next to a lady who tried to impress me by vouchsafing the information that one of her ancestors witnessed the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I could not resist replying: "Mine were present at the Giving of the Ten Commandments. -- Stephen S. Wise, 1923, in J. H. Hertz's _A Book of Jewish Thoughts_, 1924