Our common humanity precedes our religious differences
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Jos in Nigeria where this week hundreds of people were … Read more
Category: Morality & Ethics
The common good
On Wednesday this week the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales issued a document called “Choosing the common good.” … Read more
The Importance of Marriage
My Lords, I congratulate the Noble Lord, the right reverend prelate the Bishop of Chester, for initiating this vital debate … Read more
Faith in God after the Holocaust may be hard; but faith in humanity is harder still
Today is National Holocaust Memorial Day, and this year the focus will be on one small group of people … Read more
Perhaps We Should All Read Our Own Obituaries
Yesterday President Barack Obama was in Oslo to receive the Nobel Prize for peace. And behind that story lies … Read more
Not everything we can do, should we do
Next week the international conference on climate change begins in Copenhagen, and I’ve asked all the synagogues under my aegis … Read more
We don’t own what we possess, we merely hold it in trust
Yesterday in both Britain and America banks and courts were in the news, but for different, even opposite reasons. In … Read more
Maiden Speech – House of Lords
My Lords, when I entered this chamber for the first time I did so from the Moses Room, and I … Read more
Introduction to the House of Lords
The Chief Rabbi officially became a peer on October 27 when he was introduced to the House of Lords as … Read more
Succot is about the Resilience of the Human Spirit
First came the tsunami in the South Pacific, then, less than 24 hours later, the earthquake in Sumatra, claiming … Read more
