I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

Intermarriage is not a calamity but an opportunity for both a Jewish and non-Jewish partner to learn.

The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.

Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.

The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. There is no need anymore to choose between assimilation and separation. We are accepted as equals.