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Arthur Hertzberg

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

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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."

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"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."

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"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

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"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

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"Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda?"

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"Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages."

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"Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it."

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"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible."

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"Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology."

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"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded."

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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."

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

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Arthur Hertzberg
"Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad."

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Arthur Hertzberg
"Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening."

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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."

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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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"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."

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"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."

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

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