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

Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and wives, parents, friends and citizens, and by the knowledge of what we do and what we are makes a difference to those around us. (...) Renewing society's resources of moral energy is the program, urgent but achievable.

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.

Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.