What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees.

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

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.