When everything that matters can be bought and sold, when commitments can be broken because they are no longer to our advantage, when shopping becomes salvation and advertising slogans become our litany, when our worth is measured by how much we earn and spend, then the market is destroying the very virtues on which in the long run it depends.

When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.

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?

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

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