Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, nei...
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that...
Wisdom tells us how the world is. Torah tells us how the world ought to be. Wisdom is about nature. Torah is about will.
Judaism is a protest: against empires, hierarchical social structures, and the beliefs that held them in place.
It is as if the man said to him, In the past, you struggled to be Esau. In the future you will struggle not to be Esau but to be yourself. In the past you held on to Esau’s heel. In the future you wil...
God is beyond time, but human beings live within time. We cannot take ourselves out of, say, the twenty-first century and project ourselves a thousand years from now. Inescapably, we live in the now,...
A people driven by hate are not – cannot be – free.
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
Our views of the natural are shaped by our ideas of the supernatural.
What Jacob learned – and what we learn, hearing his story – is that love is not enough. We must also heed those who feel unloved.
My thesis that the practice of non-violence requires belief in divine vengeance will be unpopular with many Christians, especially theologians in the West. To the person who is inclined to dismiss it,...
In an age in which rulers wrote history in the form of triumphal inscriptions, the Israelites alone recorded their failures more vividly than their successes.
Homo sapiens, discovering God singular and alone, discovered the human being singular and alone. There is no greater dignity than that
Holiness belongs to all of us when we turn our lives into the service of God, and society into a home for the Divine Presence.
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as sc...
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the ex...
When a human being makes many coins in a single mint, they all come out the same. God makes every human being in the same image, His image, yet they all emerge different.
The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.