The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

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.

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

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

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

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.

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.