The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of povert…

- Arthur Hertzberg

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is no…

- Arthur Hertzberg

Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class sta…

- Arthur Hertzberg

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they…

- Arthur Hertzberg

The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena tha…

- Arthur Hertzberg

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders…

- Arthur Hertzberg

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they t…

- Arthur Hertzberg

In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time …

- Arthur Hertzberg

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ard…

- Arthur Hertzberg