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I have enormous pride in the survival of the jewish people, the cultural heritage of the jewish people, but i'm not observant, and i don't belong to a synagogue. i don't go to temple on high holy days, but i'm proud to be jewish.
-Erica Jong
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I Have Enormous Pride In The Survival

Erica Jong
I have enormous pride in the survival of the jewish people, the cultural heritage of the jewish people, but i'm not observant, and i don't belong to a synagogue. i don't go to temple on high holy days, but i'm proud to be jewish.
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If only one country, for whatever reason, tolerates a jewish family in it, that family will become the germ center for fresh sedition. if one little jewish boy survives without any jewish education, with no synagogue and no hebrew school, it [judaism] is in his soul. even if there had never been a synagogue or a jewish school or an old testament, the jewish spirit would still exist and exert its influence. it has been there from the beginning and there is no jew, not a single one, who does not personify it.
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Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. i have never regarded the chinese or the japanese as being inferior to ourselves. they belong to ancient civilizations, and i admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. they have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. indeed, i believe the more steadfast the chinese and the japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier i shall find it to get on with them.
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