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.

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

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

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

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.