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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.

It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

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.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents and which my mother's parents were very steeped in.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Judaism is a conspiracy against all races.