Stephen Samuel Wise (born Weisz, March 17, 1874 – April 19, 1949) was an American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader.
An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.
Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.
It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
Vision looks inward and becomes duty.
Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.
That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.
"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race. "
Ashley Scott
Daws Butler
Saint Joseph
Ron Greenwood
Lilias Trotter
Eric Balfour
David James Elliott
James Cook
Chris Gethard
Jonathan Groff
Peter Shumlin
David Ray Griffin