Defeating Death (Nitzavim) Only now, reaching Nitzavim-Vayelech, can we begin to get a sense of the vast, world- changing project at...
Jonathan Sacks : There’s an old and totally apocryphal story about the nineteenth century French Jewish aristocrat Baron de Rothschild, whose...
Sunset-over-the-red-sea-coast-of-israel-the-town-of-eilat.Leading up to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Rabbi Sacks has written a series of short thoughts to help focus our...
A profound commentary on our narrative as a people and nation. A must read for...
Jonathan Sacks This year we approach the New Year with more fear and trembling than for a very long time....
Jonathan Sacks First, a general point. Jews have been subjected to racism more and longer than any other nation...
Jonathan Sacks: The parsha of Shoftim is the classic source of the three types of leadership in Judaism, called by the...
One of the gifts of great leaders, and one from which each of us can learn, is that they frame reality...
Jonathan Sacks The novelist Rebecca West once said that Jews, having suffered so much, had an “unsurprisable soul”,...
Jonathan Sacks “If only you would listen to these laws …” (Deut. 7: 12). These words with which our parsha...
Jonathan Sacks Buried inconspicuously in this week’s parsha is a short sentence with explosive potential, causing us to think again about...
It was one of the great moments of personal transformation, and it changed not only Moses but our very conception of...
Jonathan Sacks: Nine days from now Jewish communities around the world will sit in collective mourning on Tisha b’Av, the...
By Rav Jonathan Sacks, The parsha of Masei always occurs at the heart of the Three Weeks. This is the time...
One of the hardest tasks of a leader – from prime ministers to parents – is conflict resolution. Yet it is...
Lessons of a Leader. Pinchas contains a mini-essay on leadership, as Moses confronts his own mortality and asks God to appoint...
Leadership and Loyalty – Balak First, by way of introduction, we have independent evidence that Bilaam actually existed. An...
By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. “You have gone too far! The whole community are holy, every one of them, and the Lord...
We The People. By Rav. Jonathan Sacks. In Bechukotai, in the midst of one of the most...
By Jonathan Sacks Please take the time and read this weeks commentary. His insights transcend personal religious identity. Jonathan Sacks:...
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