As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.
Jews are frequently compared to the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine,' an enduring signal for when the world is failing to meet its obligations in tackling bigotry. It has never been clearer to me just how widely understood that truism is.
The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.
Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.
All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
Let no Jew, regardless of their circumstances, feel that he or she cannot experience that unique moment of peace when Shabbat begins.
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.
I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.
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.
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.