Lord Sacks

Former Crossbench Peer

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  • Anti-Semitism - Motion to Take Note 20 Jun 2019

    My Lords, I am exceptionally grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, for tabling this debate, and to the many speakers who have conveyed to the Jewish communities here and elsewhere that we are not alone—that we have friends. At this time, that is very important. I have just returned from a conference in Warsaw. It is a city that I do not know well, and I was shaken to discover that...
  • Anti-Semitism - Question for Short Debate 13 Sep 2018

    My Lords, I am so grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Popat, for initiating this debate, and I want to explain why. The greatest danger any civilisation faces is when it suffers collective amnesia. We forget how small beginnings lead to truly terrible endings. A thousand years of Jewish history in Europe added certain words to the human vocabulary: forced conversion, inquisition, expulsion,...
  • Education and Society - Motion to Take Note 8 Dec 2017

    My Lords, I too am grateful to the most reverend Primate for initiating this debate on a subject that is vital to the future flourishing of our children and grandchildren. Perhaps I may be allowed to speak personally as a Jew. Something about our faith moves me greatly, and it goes to the heart of this debate. At the dawn of our people’s history, Moses assembled the Israelites on the brink...

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Former Crossbench Peer

Entered the House of Lords on 27 October 2009

Left the House of Lords on 7 November 2020

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