The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

The first of the 'request' prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! Wh…