“Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.”
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While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
