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Speeches
Address by the Chief Rabbi to The Lambeth Conference
28th July 2008 Friends -- this is for me a profoundly moving moment.  You have invited me, a Jew, to join your deliberations, and I thank you for that, and for all it implies.  There is a lot of history between our faiths,...
Covenant & Conversation
Chukat-Balak 5769
One of the most profound and influential comments ever made about Jewish destiny was made by the pagan prophet Bilaam in this week's sedra: As I see them from the mountain tops, Gaze on them from the heights, Behold it is a people that dwells...
 

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Thought for the Day 2009
We must recover the idea of fatherhood
 This coming Sunday is father’s day, and fatherhood has been in the news this week. First there was the report that the number of fathers staying at home to look after the children has gone up 80 per cent in a single year. Partly of...
Credo 2009
Without a shared moral code there can be no free society
 Subprime mortgages, financial collapse, MPs expenses: these and other recent scandals are more than mere passing events. They have left Parliament and the market, the twin foundations of the free society, in disarray. What has been lost...
Articles - General
The Times - Self Restraint is the essence of a free society
 He wants a YouTube prayer site and a Live Aid for the Jews, and his online peace anthem has had 600,000 hits. The Chief Rabbi is a very modern traditionalist. He doesn’t “do Twitter or texts” — “I’m still chipping away at the stone...
Books
Future Tense
Historically, Jews have thought of themselves in terms of the biblical phrase, 'The people that dwells alone.' In the current global environment,...
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