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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."

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"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."

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"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

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"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."

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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."

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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

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"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."

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"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."

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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

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"There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad."

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"I've always been crazy for the American songbook."

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"The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever."

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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."

Thought

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Arthur Hertzberg
"I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it."

Fight

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Arthur Hertzberg
"A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers."

People

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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!"

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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."

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Arthur Hertzberg
"I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay."

Labor

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Arthur Hertzberg
"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."

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Arthur Hertzberg
"My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is."

Success

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Arthur Hertzberg
"I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invite anyone else to listen in."

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Arthur Hertzberg
"I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that."

God

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