Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.