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.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

Audiences are audiences.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.