Judaism is the refusal to give way to despair. - Jonathan Sacks

[T]oday there is hardly a country in the world, certainly not a single country in Europe, where Jews feel safe.
A society, or for that matter, a political party, that tolerates antisemitism, that tolerates any hate, has forfeited all moral credibility.

In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel...

The first of the "request" prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.