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• Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts…
• People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I…
• 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,…
• 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…
• Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious…
• 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…
• Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today…
• Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of…
• If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the…
• In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and…
• In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism,…
• In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of…
• 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…
• 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…
• Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times…
• 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…
• Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights.…
• Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values…
• The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the…
• 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…

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