Quotes by Ephraim Mirvis - Page 1

In the face of death, we will continue to choose and sanctify life.
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Sanctify
Life Death Face
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I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.
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Privileged
Rabbi
Appointed
Chief
Indeed
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Britain has been good to the Jews, and the Jews have been good for Britain.
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Britain
Jews
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'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.
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Rabbi
Chief
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We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.
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Cruelty
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Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.
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Anti Semitism
Jews
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The rabbis will find in me personally someone who cares about their future and welfare.
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Welfare
Who Cares
Future Me Will
Cares
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Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.
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Commandments
Precedence
Preservation
Absolute
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Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.
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Leap
Jewish
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The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.
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Active
Court
Rabbi
Myself See I See
Chief
Din
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Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.
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Free Speech
Virtue
Good World Free
Good May World
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Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds.
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Odds
Pursuit
Unshakable
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Human beings are partners of the Almighty in bringing life into the world, and we are his partners also in healing.
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Almighty
Healing
Partners
Bringing
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While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
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Circumstances
Cowardice
Noble
Oblivion
Self Control
Suppression
Signify
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All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.
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Oppression
Prejudice
Scourge
Virtue
Societies
Validating
Wrestle
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When someone denies the right of Israel to exist, it hurts us, just as an attack on a close member of our family would hurt us.
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Attack
Denies
Hurts
Member
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Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
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Ethics
Human Nature
Psychology
Depths
Sink
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As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.
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Grieving
Wander
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Let no Jew, regardless of their circumstances, feel that he or she cannot experience that unique moment of peace when Shabbat begins.
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Circumstances
Begins
He Or She
Regardless
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The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.
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Consciousness
Grief
Holocaust
Remains
Visceral
Jewish
Abject
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Anyone who truly understands what apartheid was cannot possibly look around Israel today and honestly claim there is any kind of parity.
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Apartheid
Parity
Claim
Understands
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We must teach compassion and tolerance and encourage kindness, selflessness, and loving acceptance of all who are created in the image of God.
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Acceptance
Compassion
Selflessness
Tolerance
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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.
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Components
Constructive
Track
Track Record
Warmth
Jewish
Sought
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Full and unhesitating implementation of the report's findings must now follow. I call upon the Labour Party to guarantee that there will be zero tolerance of antisemitism.
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Zero
Guarantees That
Party
Tolerance
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Holocaust denial, once the preserve of fringe conspiracy theorists, has mutated into Holocaust obfuscation, equivocation, and specious comparison on a larger scale than ever.
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Comparison
Conspiracy
Denial
Fringe
Holocaust
Scale
Larger Scale
Preserve
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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.
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Civilisation
Fabric
Inference
Time Change Power
Charged
Change Time Power
Deployed
Effectively
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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.
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Anti Semitism
Empty
Fulfilled
Political Parties
Objective
Parties
Promises
Rid
We Cannot
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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.
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Coal
Failing
Proverbial
Tackling
Truism
Understood
World Me Never
Canary
Clearer
Enduring
Frequently
Jews
Meet
Mine
Obligations
Signal
Widely
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I was honoured recently to accept the position of president of Mizrachi U.K. I did so because I believe our eternal challenge as Jews is both straightforward and also awash with complexity: How to sanctify the innovations of the modern world in accordance with our eternal Jewish values?
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Complexity
Eternal
Modern World
Sanctify
Straightforward
Believe World I Believe
Jewish
Accordance
Believe I Believe World
Honoured
Innovations
Jews
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