31 Quotes by Ephraim Mirvis

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

All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.

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?

Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.

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.

Anyone who truly understands what apartheid was cannot possibly look around Israel today and honestly claim there is any kind of parity.

Human beings are partners of the Almighty in bringing life into the world, and we are his partners also in healing.

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.

Shimon Peres was the greatest living example of an unshakable belief in the pursuit of peace against all odds.