Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

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.