Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

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

I was never without a book in my hand.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.