Let no Jew, regardless of their circumstances, feel that he or she cannot experience that unique moment of peace when Shabbat begins.

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.

I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.

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

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.