On a recent visit to Israel, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks -- the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom -- told listeners that the return of anti-Semitism within living memory of the Holocaust is a serious problem, the Spero Forum website reports today (February 23, 2013).
Speaking at Tel Hai College, Rabbi Sacks spoke on "The 21st Century Challenge for Jews and Israel." The leading challenge for Jews today, said the rabbi, is anti-Semitism.
Rabbi Sacks added that seeing young Jews assaulted on European university campuses has been the "shock of my life."
Calling anti-Semitism a set of "internally contradictory set of beliefs" -- rather than coherent doctrine -- Rabbi Sacks likened anti-Semitism to a virus that "invades nations, bodies politics, in the way a biological virus attacks the human body."
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