Quotes from Jonathan Sacks

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 drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

To defend a country, you need an army, but to defend a civilization, you need education...

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.