Count me in - but not without Israel At the Pesach Seder I always try to have representatives of other religions with us, such as my friend Archdeacon Martin Lloyd Williams, who also did us the honour of visiting us at Chanukah. I am proud, too, to have welcomed young people from a mosque during the week of Sukkot in I believe deeply in the importance of interfaith dialogue. I was one of the founders of Faith in Action: a network bringing together people of different faiths,

The Myth That Israel Is Unsafe With your permission, today I would like to try to dismantle one of the most irritating — and in some cases worst-faith — clichés currently circulating. It goes something like this: “Israel is the most dangerous place on earth to be Jewish.” Or, in a slightly more sophisticated version: “If British Jews are afraid here, where exactly do they think they are going to go? Israel? Surely Israel is even less safe.” Now, of course, there are real dang

WHEN WORDS BECOME WEAPONS In March, the ambulances were set on fire — but let us not make a fuss: the arsonists were caught. Two weeks ago, there was the attempted arson of a synagogue. But again, let us not make a fuss: in the end, the Molotov cocktail did not work. Two Jews were stabbed in Golders Green, a place where Jews are supposed to feel safe. Well, you know: a mentally unstable person, somehow inflamed by news from the Middle East — which is a polite way of blaming I