Famous quotes containing the words jewish and/or community:
“Don: Why are they closed? Theyre all closed, every one of them.
Pawnbroker: Sure they are. Its Yom Kippur.
Don: Its what?
Pawnbroker: Its Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday.
Don: It is? So what about Kellys and Gallaghers?
Pawnbroker: Theyre closed, too. Weve got an agreement. They keep closed on Yom Kippur and we dont open on St. Patricks.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“The poorest children in a community now find the beneficent kindergarten open to them from the age of two-and-a-half to six years. Too young heretofore to be eligible to any public school, they have acquired in their babyhood the vicious tendencies of their own depraved neighborhoods; and to their environment at that tender age had been due the loss of decency and self-respect that no after example of education has been able to restore to them.”
—Virginia Thrall Smith (18361903)