To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

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

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.

Freedom... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.