The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

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

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.