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

Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.