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To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by the unique God requires total and unconditional loyalty to one people.

I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish democratic state - and we have to make this choice, it is inevitable - then my choice is a Jewish democratic country.

The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

I believe that our democratic values are also born out of our Jewish faith, a 'love for the stranger,' and equality before the law - these are not foreign values: this is Judaism.

The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.