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| Has Europe lost its soul to the markets? |
| 12/12/2011 |
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(Published in The Times, 12th December 2011)
As the political leaders of Europe come together to save the euro and European Union itself, I believe the time has come for religious leaders to do likewise.
The task ahead of us is not between Jews and Catholics, or even Jews and Christians, but between Jews and Christians on the one hand and the increasingly, even aggressively secularising... |
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| Statement on the release of Gilad Shalit |
| 18/10/2011 |
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Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks said:
“The safe return of Gilad Shalit to his family and to his freedom is a sight Jews around the world have been praying and campaigning for since his capture on 25 June 2006. Our prayers have been answered, and we rejoice for and with Gilad and his family.
“The concept of Pidyon shevuyim, the redemption of captives, is a fundamental mitzvah in Judaism, and the sanctity and significance of a single life one of our highest values. Israel has again shown i... |
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| Democratized Holiness: Yom Kippur And Moral Responsibility |
| 7/10/2011 |
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Published in The Huffington Post, 6th October 2011
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God’s Book of Life.
Its hold on the Jewish imagination is immense and undiminished, even in a deeply secular age. Synagogues tend to be fuller... |
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| The 9/11 attacks are linked to a wider moral malaise |
| 8/9/2011 |
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Published in the Times 8/9/2011
Two things have haunted me since 9/11. The first is the pain, the grief, the lives lost and families devastated, the sheer barbaric ingenuity of evil. The scar in our humanity is still unhealed. The second is our failure to understand what Osama bin Laden was saying about the West. We did not hear the message then. I’m not sure we hear it now.
After the shock and grief subsided, two theories began to be heard. The first was that this... |
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