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.

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

I was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary.

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.