Ephraim Mirvis

Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you. ”

Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink. ”

All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression. ”

Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation. ”

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain. ”

My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith. ”

The rabbis will find in me personally someone who cares about their future and welfare. ”

All political parties share in the responsibility to rid our society of anti-Semitism, but we cannot achieve that objective with political posturing or empty promises of action never to be fulfilled. ”