What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst.

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!