With wealth comes responsibility.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

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.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

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.