God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

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

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.