For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other’s throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the love I have for you, for all the things I remember, and for all the things I should remember but have forgotten, for all these I created this painting—an observant Jew working on a crucifixion because there was no aesthetic mold in his own religious tradition into which he could pour a painting of ultimate anguish and torment.
Chaim PotokTags: art pain suffering jewish painting judaism paint jew torment asher-lev hasidic hasidic-judaism
Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.
Kay GoodstadtTags: love food death sex faith marriage tea gay hollywood gossip new-orleans jewish infidelity london orthodox judaism rumors brain-tumor brain-cancer romantic-thriller
She walked down the basement steps. She saw an imaginary framed photo seep into the wall - a quiet-smiled secret. No more than a few meters, it was a long walk to the drop sheets and the assortment of paint cans that shielded Max Vandenburg. She removed the sheets closest to the wall until there was a small corridor to look through. The first part of him she saw was his shoulder, and through the slender gap, she slowly, painfully, inched her hand in until it rested there. His clothing was cool. He did not wake.
She could feel his breathing and his shoulder moving up and down ever so slightly. For a while, she watched him. Then she sat and leaned back.
Sleepy air seemed to have followed her.
The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as both the hidden Jew and the girl slept, hand to shoulder.
They breathed.
German and Jewish lungs.
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The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.
Wendy MogelTags: children parenting jewish torah
It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.
Elie WieselTags: holocaust jewish jews hitler jewish-tradition
I am hungry for power, but not to lord over others; only to own myself.
Deborah FeldmanTags: power freedom jewish jews freedom-of-religion hunger freedom-of-expression
Jenny held
her breath wondering whether her matzo would pass muster.
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. . . there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way.
Alan BennettTags: humor marriage jewish catholics
You have to look at Jews like Bina Gelbfish, to explain the wide range and persistence of the race. Jews who carry their homes in an old cowhide bag, on the back of a camel, in the bubble of air at the center of their brains. Jews who land on their feet, hit the ground running, ride out the vicissitudes, and make the best of what falls to hand, from Egypt to Babylon, from Minsk Gubernya to the district of Sitka. Methodological, organised, persistent, resourceful, prepared... A mere re-drawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a good supply of hand wipes in her bag.
Michael Chabon- Mas tu disseste que quando fosse mais velha podia ser aquilo que quisesse - disse-lhe.
Ela sorriu e respondeu:
- E podes ser. Mas não é muito fácil tornarmo-nos judeus.
- Eu sei - respondi desolada. - Preciso de um número.
Ela parou subitamente de sorrir.
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