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• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Reticence vs. Impetuosity – Shemini – It should have been a day of joy –

    By Rav. Jonathan Sacks, It should have been a day of joy. The Israelites had completed the mishkan, the sanctuary. For...

• Blogs

  Purim, the most boisterous and exuberant of all Jewish festivals.

  “If you’re driving through a Jewish area this Saturday night or Sunday, don’t be surprised if you see lots of children in...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The great leaders know their own limits – Tzav

                  By  Rav. Jonathan Sacks. The great leaders know their own limits. They do not try to do it all themselves. They...

• Steve

  It is One Year Since the Loss of my Dear Friend co-host Yoram Getzler

  I am re-posting last years blog I wrote about of my dear friend and co-host of IsraelSeen: Yoram Getzler z”l. I have...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Sins of a Leader – Vayikra

  Sins of a leader- Leaders make mistakes. That is inevitable. So, strikingly, our parsha implies. The real issue is how he or...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Celebrate – Pekudei dvar Torah – Covenant and Conversation

       “If leaders are to bring out the best in those they lead, they must give them the chance to show they...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Team-Building – Vayakhel

             By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. How do you remotivate a demoralized people? How do you put the pieces...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  How Leaders Fail – Ki Tissa

                  By Rav Jonathan Sacks. Leaders can fail for two kinds of reason. The first is external....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Counterpoint of Leadership – Tetzaveh

          One of the most important Jewish contributions to our understanding of leadership is its early insistence of what, in the eighteenth...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Home We Build Together – Terumah

                  By Rav Jonathan Sacks. The sequence of parshiyot, Terumah, Tetzaveh, Ki Tissa, Vayakhel and Pekudei, is puzzling in many ways. First,...

• Algemeiner News Service

  An Upside Down World – It Appears that EU Leaders are Hypocrites and Deniers

      European Union (EU) flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons. Catherine Ashton’s...

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  The Search for the Names of the Six Million Holocaust Victims

  Pope John Paul II during a visit to Yad Vashem 23/3/2000,The Dalai Lama, speaking with Avner Shalev during a visit to Yad...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Vision and Details – Mishpatim

               By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Our parsha takes us through a bewildering transition. Until now in Shemot...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  A Nation of Leaders – Yitro

                  By  Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. This week’s parsha consists of two episodes that seem to be...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Stewardship Paradigm

      By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Few texts have had a deeper influence on Western civilisation than the first chapter of Genesis, with...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Looking Up – Beshallach

    By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The Israelites had crossed the Red Sea. The impossible had happened. The mightiest army in the ancient...

• Blogs

  Religion and the Common Good

    This video is well worth the time to listen to. It is enlightening and inspiring! On 14 November 2013, Rabbi Lord...

• Blogs

  The Far Horizon – Bo

    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. To gain insight into the unique leadership lesson of this week’s parsha, I often ask an audience to...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Overcoming Setbacks – Vaera

  At first, Moses’ mission seemed to be successful. He had feared that the people would not believe in him, but God had...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Women as Leaders

     This week’s parsha could be entitled “The birth of a leader.” We see Moses, adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter, growing up as...