The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

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

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

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.