…wonderfully articulate and highly readable book

We, the majority, could want no more eloquent and intelligent advocate than Jonathan Sacks to ‘speak for England’, or indeed for Britain.

Identity in a post-multicultural society will have a new foundation, if Sacks has his way.

I found Mr Sack’s detailed examination of social contracts and civil society, which he suggests is best grounded in covenantal commitments, most interesting… I was encouraged by Mr Sack’s vision.

British Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks is the premier public intellectual of Judaism in the English-speaking world and has no obvious counterpart in the communities of Judaism conducted in other languages. No one in Israeli intellectual life competes …This book joins with its predecessors…to form an oeuvre of moral authority and compelling logic. For a corpus of writing substantially less ambitious than this some have received the Nobel Prize.

There is much of great wisdom here, for readers of all faiths and none.

Sacks confronts issues many would prefer to ignore and presents responses which will make some people uncomfortable. Nevertheless these are issues we have to address if we want to enjoy social cohesion.

This important book…addresses a crucial theme

A deeply philosophical, yet extremely hard-hitting book.

[Sacks] argues like an expert dancer, leading his audience through a waltz of lilting reasonableness.