| Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks' speech in debate in House of Lords, Wednesday 4 May, 2011 |
| 4/5/2011 |
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Peace is more than a resting place on the road to war
My Lords, I welcome this debate because it allows us to
focus on both words of the phrase “peace process.” We, who pray for peace,
understand by that word, a state in which I recognise your right to exist, and
you recognise mine. That is what peace minimally means.
How then can we be speaking about peace when Hamas
remains committed as a matter of principle to the elimination of the state of
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| House of Lords - Marriage Debate - 10 February 2010 |
| 15/2/2011 |
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My Lords, I congratulate the Noble Lord, the right reverend prelate the Bishop of Chester, for initiating this vital debate on the future of marriage in Britain. And I do so for a simple reason.
Our children are going to have it very much harder than we did. They’re going to find it harder to get a job, harder to buy a home, harder to find security in a world changing almost faster than we can bear. The economy will face ever-increasing global challenge. Government expen... |
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| House of Lords - Human Rights Debate - 2 December 2010 |
| 15/2/2011 |
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My lords, I too thank the noble lord, lord alton, for initiating
this important debate that touches the very core of our humanity, transcending
all differences of colour, culture, class or creed and setting moral limits to
the use of power. It took great crises to make people aware of human rights;
the wars of religion in the seventeenth century that led to the doctrines of
Milton and Locke; and the American and French revolutions in the eighteenth.
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| The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks' Maiden Speech |
| 27/11/2009 |
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My lords, when I entered this chamber for the first time I did so from the Moses Room, and I thank my lordships for the lengths they went to make a rabbi feel at home.
Today I feel the other side of that occasion, for it was Moses at the burning bush who felt so overwhelmed by emotion that he told God he could not speak; he was “not a man of words.”
Mind you, that did not stop him speaking a great deal thereafter. In fact on one occasion, when pleading with God to forgive the peopl... |
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