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" Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools. "

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" Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face. "

" Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live? "

" Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse. "

" The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor. "

" Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. "

" Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it. "

" 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. "

" Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. "

" Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression. "

" Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe. "

" The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet. "

" Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past. "

" A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. "

" No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work. "

" Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon. "

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" I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral. "

" Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say. "

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" As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders. "

" Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology. "

" The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe. "

" True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others. "

" The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies. "

" We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society. "

" Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived. "

" The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities. "

" A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it. "

" What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later. "

" Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent. "

" The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors. "