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

Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the issues of the incarnation and the Trinity divide people who are no longer members of the same community and who no longer speak the same language.

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.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.