We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

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

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.