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

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.