On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge..

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders….

You save your soul by saving someone else's body..

I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope they will in their own way continue. I invi….

In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching at Columbia. I didn't spend enough time ….

Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class sta….

When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ard….

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classica….

A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they….

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of povert….

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is no….

The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena tha….

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story st….

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they t….

I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it..

How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt..