There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.

The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes we say in a prayer, "Blessed are Thou, O God, who has ordered us and commended us," to do something. But you don't find that "something" in the Bible; you find it in the Talmud. So Talmudic law becomes as important as Biblical law.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.