Britain’s leading rabbi and other faith leaders issued a joint statement of condemnation of the London terrorist attacks. Speaking Monday at the Church of England’s Lambeth Palace, Jonathan Sacks, the country’s chief Orthodox rabbi, said they had come together “to express our shared commitment to resisting and overcoming the evil of terrorism,” adding, “It is an evil that cannot be justified and that we utterly condemn and reject.”
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