“Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The ques…” — Jonathan Sacks

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.