Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.