Latest Jonathan Sacks Quotes from Interviews

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• When you've got Jews and Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus removing graffiti from buildings, or getting drug dealers off the street, that's side by side. When you do that, you take it from the very elevated level of interfaith dialogue to the street level of neighbors. You get them working side by side, and they become friends. Friendship sometimes counts for more than interfaith agreement or understanding. Friendship is deeply human.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Christian, Drug, Understanding

  Source: sojo.net

• Sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith. For me, it was reading about how the Catholic Church wrestled with itself in the 1960s. Pope John XXIII set Nostra Aetate - the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions - in motion. It changed the relationship between Jews and Catholics. Today, Jews and Catholics meet as friends. If you can do that, after the longest history of hatred the world has known, that empowers you as a Jew or a Muslim to wrestle with your faith.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Reading, Wrestling, Empowering

  Source: sojo.net

• There are hard texts in each tradition which we must confront and ask ourselves, 'Can we reinterpret those texts to allow us to live peaceably, and respectfully, with people of other faiths?' That is a job only Jews can do for Judaism, only Christians can do for Christianity, and only Muslims can do for Islam. But sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Christian, Wrestling, People

  Source: sojo.net

• That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Party, Politics Today, British Politics

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Independent, Israel, Culture Religion

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Isis, Common Humanity

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk