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| Address to Nexus Institute Amsterdam September 2009 |
| 15/9/2009 |
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The Echoes of Tragedy
Is there any limit to the echoes of tragedy?
When we listen to an opera or watch a play, the events on stage belong to one order of reality while we are part of another. This gives us, however much we identify with the characters and their fate, the safety of detachment. We are like Zeus observing the affairs of humankind from the top of Mount Olympus. It is no accident that both... |
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| Selichot Drasha - 12 September 2009 |
| 15/9/2009 |
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| Rally Trafalgar Square |
| 11/1/2009 |
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We are gathered today, not in triumph but in tears.
Nothing that has happened in
Gaza needed to happen.
All it took to avoid all the suffering
was for Hamas to end firing rockets on innocent Israeli civilians.
That's all.
And let a voice go out today from here in
Trafalgar Square,
And from other gatherings today in
Manchester,
Paris and
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| Address to European Parliament, Strasbourg, November 2008 |
| 19/11/2008 |
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Dialogue lies at the roots of European civilisation but is not enough on its own. We also need closer social bonds in the form of "covenantal relationships", according to Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, who addressed a formal sitting of the House on Wednesday.
Introducing Sir Jonathan Sacks, European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pötteringstated that with the Chief Rabbi's address the EP had now welcomed representatives ... |
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