Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.Theodore Bikel
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.
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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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