If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.

Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

As a traditional Jew, I have benefited personally from the hospitality of Chabad Hasidim on many occasions, and I marvel at how many Jews Chabad has brought back to their primordial home.

The relationship between God and his people was always the one having absolute primacy, the one that had basically to determine all human relationships, whether those within the covenanted community itself or those between the covenanted community and the outside world.

Cultural synthesis is how a compromise between various opinions is worked out. But truth does not change, and truth is not arrived at by some sort of compromise.

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.

People leave when they don't feel appreciated. That's why we've made recognition a really high value. Our business is people-capability first; then you satisfy customers; then you make money.

One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy.

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.

Although most Christian churches advocate some sort of mission to non-Christians, no Jewish group advocates a mission to non-Jews. Proselytization seems to be foreign to Judaism.

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.

Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.

There is no question that Israelis -- indeed, all concerned Jews -- have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel.

The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.