Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters. – Anita Diament
The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart. – Anita Diament
My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding. – Anita Diament
The African Americans relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allens African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa. – Henry Louis Gates