Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten

Jews participated in the ownership of human beings right up through to the nineteenth century, and biblical texts were quoted by some Civil War–era American rabbis to justify the South’s “peculiar institution.

In the Jewish communities of Europe, learned but poor Jews were much, much more highly respected than rich but unlearned ones.

In the Middle Ages, church and secular powers often forbade Jews to trim their beards in any way. Why? To be certain that a Jew could be identified.