I'm deeply grateful to be Jewish. I feel it's enriched my life and I feel very strongly about Jewishness.

In the Bronx, we had three synagogues on one block at 161st Street. My father was Orthodox and we went to the Sephardi one. Further along was the Conservative,…

I wouldn't play it in public - you need different muscles, you can't use the upper arm, just the fingers. But the sound has a glow, because the strings aren't …

I sat reading in these chairs and felt somehow, in an abstract rather than a religious way, that suffering shapes you. Not only my own religious thought, but t…

I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel.