Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were poor; because they were capitalists and because they were communists; because they held tenaciously to an ancient faith and because they were rootless cosmopolitans, believing nothing. Hate needs no logic. It is a sickness of the soul.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin

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.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.