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At thirteen I tried silence. At sixteen I tried anonymity. I have since learned these are not the only options.

— Irena Klepfisz Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes (1990)

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A child, of course, assumes that her world is the whole world.

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As a child, my first conscious feeling about being Jewish was that it was dangerous, something to be hidden.

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I've been thinking a lot about it lately, about the corruption here in America, how everything becomes big business, how everything becomes diseased. Everything.

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Though U.S. Jews were quick to protest the Knesset's attempt to define "who is a Jew," it is a definition we are obsessed with.

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There’s got to be a greater knowledge of diversity in Jewish life.

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

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There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

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