I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.