"Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs."
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Immanuel Jakobovits
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits (8 February 1921 – 31 October 1999) was the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth from 1967 to 1991. He was the son-in-law of Elie Munk.
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