Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

With wealth comes responsibility.

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

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.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.