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• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  What Makes Us Human?

                            ” When it works, the family is the matrix of our humanity. It...

• Guest Contributors

  So God is moving to more interesting places

  Lately, a strange feeling has gotten hold of me. I am not yet able to fully articulate it, but something tells me...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Holiness and Childbirth

           A deeply profound explanation of this weeks Torah portion by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks.  The sidrot of Tazria and...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Fire – Holy and Unholy

     Sculpture by International Artist Phillip Ratner. This is a truly powerful interpretation/explanation of this weeks Torah reading.   By Rabbi Lord...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Pesach, or Passover, is the Jewish festival of freedom

    Sculpture by Phillip Ratner . This past week my wife and I had the surprising pleasure of encountering  Rabbi Sacks and...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Rituals are how civilizations preserve their memory

       When people talk about religion in Britain, they tend to speak about beliefs. Which, for Jews, is very odd. Yes, belief...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Between Destiny and Chance

    Art by Phillip Ratner   Commentary By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks  The third book of the Torah is known in English as...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Radical Responsibility: Keynote Speech at International Jerusalem Book Fair

    The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks delivered the keynote address at the launch of ‘Radical Responsibility: Celebrating the Thought of Chief Rabbi...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Israel – The Source of Hope for All Mankind

      Rabbi Sacks was in Israel last week and spoke at Tel Chai College in the Galil.  I strongly recommend everyone, Jew...

• Blogs

  ‘A Big Society’ or ‘A Good Society’

  This is a brilliant and truly insightful understanding of  The State, Community and Society. By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, I want this evening...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Generations Forget and Remember

    By Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. The drama of younger and older brothers, which haunts the book of Bereishit from Cain...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Moral Animal

      IT is the religious time of the year. Step into any city in America or Britain and you will see the...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Choice and Change – Vayigash

     Art By Phillip Ratner   By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. The sequence from Bereishit 37 to 50 is the longest unbroken...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Disguises – Do They Work

    Art work by Phillip Ratner       Joseph is now the ruler of Egypt. The famine he predicted has come to pass....

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Refusal to be Comforted

    Jacob rent his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned his son for a long time. His sons and daughters tried to...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  The Elimination of Violence against Women

  By Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks This week’s parsha of Vayetze contains much about family relationships and conflict. Jacob, in love with...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  COVENANT & CONVERSATION: Vayetze – Encountering G-d

     Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks   Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “G-d is truly in this place, but I...

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  My Conversation With the Chief

  By Yoram Hazony. In Britain, you meet quite a few Jews who refer to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks simply as “the Chief.” True,...

• Weekly Torah Reading

  Noach – True Morality

         by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks   Is there such a thing as an objective basis of morality? For some time, in secular...

• Algemeiner News Service

  The Prophetic Voice

        Art By Phillip Ratner   By Jonathan Sacks During the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b’Av, as...