Sublime

The ultrareligious part of the community even greeted the new situation. On September 19, 1935, Der Israelit, the organ of Orthodox German Jewry, after expressing its support for the idea of cultural autonomy and separate education, explicitly welcomed the interdiction of mixed marriages.

Jewish history is a living testimony to the power of ideas,

Jews are one quarter of 1 percent of the world population. Yet they make up almost 30 percent of the world’s Nobel Prize winners. Such achievement is not bred in the genes. It is a product of centuries of insistence on the gift of the human mind. The great heroes of Jewish spirituality always include scholars and sages.

Les Juifs cultivés et sans fortune vont tous aujourd’hui naturellement vers le socialisme.

In our vision of a yeshiva, the students—adult men and women—would learn how to learn Jewish texts.

Perhaps the most astonishing lesson of World War Two is that, in the aftermath of total war and unconditional surrender, a hard reset of two very different cultures was possible. Judging from the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, it certainly seems that one can bomb ideas—by obliterating many of the people who hold them. Kill a s

Chacun est aussi complètement libre dans sa foi ou dans son incrédulité que dans sa nationalité. Et s’il arrive que des fidèles d’une autre confession, des membres d’une autre nationalité habitent aussi chez nous, nous leur accorderons une protection honorable et l’égalité des droits.