"

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop wh...more

"

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is ...more

"

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter b...more

"

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual val...more

"

We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share w...more

"

We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. G...more

"

The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, idea...more