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.

A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

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

People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.