I was 15, not 14, when I was inside there [Auschwitz], 15, and for me both were actually a surprise.

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.