Jonathan Sacks Quotes

That This Occurred At The Launch Of The Report Into The Labour Party's Recent Troubles With Antisemitism Shows How Deep The Sickness Is In Parts Of Left Of British Politics Today.

Whole Communities Are Growing Up Without Fathers Or Male Role Models. Bringing Up A Family In The Best Of Circumstances Is Not Easy. To Try To Do It By Placing The Entire Burden On Women - 91% Of Single-parent Families In Britain Are Headed By The Mother, According To Census Data - Is Practically Absurd And Morally Indefensible.

In Her Religious Role, The Queen Is Head Of The Church Of England, But In Her Civic Role She Cares For All Her Subjects, And No One Is Better At Making Everyone She Meets Feel Valued.

The People Of Israel Are Entitled, As Is Any Other Nation, To Live In Peace And Safety.

In The Post-enlightenment Europe Of The 19th Century The Highest Authority Was No Longer The Church. Instead It Was Science. Thus Was Born Racial Anti-semitism, Based On Two Disciplines Regarded As Science In Their Day - The 'scientific Study Of Race' And The Social Darwinism Of Herbert Spencer And Ernst Haeckel.

Marriage, Sanctified By The Bond Of Fidelity, Is The Nearest Life Gets To A Work Of Art.

As The Political Leaders Of Europe Meet To Save The Euro And European Union, So Should Religious Leaders.

Isis Is A Terrorist Entity Whose Barbarities Have Been Condemned By All Those Who Value Our Common Humanity. In The Current Political Climate, When Hate Crimes Are Rising And Political Rhetoric Is Increasingly Divisive, This Is All The More Shocking.

Which European Leader Today Would Not Relish The Wonder-working Powers Of A Moses? Budget Deficit? Unpopular Cuts? How About Just A Little Miracle, An Overnight Increase In Gold Reserves, A New Oil Field, Or The Next World-changing Communications Technology? Surely That's Not Too Much To Ask.

Jews Have Deep Respect For The Queen And The Royal Family. We Say A Prayer For Them Every Sabbath In Synagogue. We Recite A Special Blessing On Seeing The Queen.

God Is Back And Europe As A Whole Still Doesn't Get It. It Is Our Biggest Single Collective Cultural And Intellectual Blind Spot.

Science Will Explain How But Not Why. It Talks About What Is, Not What Ought To Be. Science Is Descriptive, Not Prescriptive; It Can Tell Us About Causes But It Cannot Tell Us About Purposes. Indeed, Science Disavows Purposes.