All posts tagged "Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks"

• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

  Tzav – Violence and the Sacred

      By Rabbi Lord Sacks Judaism is less a philosophical system than a field of tensions – between universalism and particularism, for...

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  Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks keynote address at AIPAC – View from Europe

  What is going on in Europe and what is taking place in Israel. AS DELIVERED Beloved friends, I’m actually only here to...

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  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...

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  HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY: JANUARY 27TH, 2013

    Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks participated in a commemoration service at City Hall,...

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  Inspired By Faith We Can Change The World

                    The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks has recorded “8 Thoughts for 8 Nights” – a...

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  How democratic were the children of Israel?

    Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks reviews leading American thinker Michael Walzer’s book on politics in the Bible. “Freedom was at the heart...

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  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...

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  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,...

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  Even Higher Than Angels

  Sculpture By Phillip Ratner. It is one of the most famous scenes in the Bible. Abraham is sitting at the entrance to...

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  Finding your Jewish identity in a secular world

                    The Chief Rabbi recently spoke at the Hillel at the University of Pennsylvania on the subject of...

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  Noach – True Morality

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

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  There is no more potent symbol of Jewish history than the sukkah

  Sukkot, or Tabernacles, is the most joyous of all the festivals. We call it the ‘season of our rejoicing’. And like Pesach...

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  Undoing the knots we tie ourselves into

  Kol nidrei. Was there ever a stranger prayer to capture the imagination of serious minds. It isn’t poetry but prose. It isn’t...

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  Judaism’s greatest leap of faith: the belief that the world is ruled by justice.

  By Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is a kind of clarion call, a summons to the Ten...

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  Covenant & Conversation 5772: Ki Tavo – Listening and Law

  By International Artist Phillip Ratner.  Commentary by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks of England. It would be reasonable to assume that a language...

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  The Ever Repeated Story – The Torah is about the truths that emerge through time

  Great insight and clarity.  Bamidbar takes up the story as we left it toward the end of Shemot. The people had journeyed...

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  Who Am I? Shmot – Exodus 1:1-6:1

  Moses’ second question to God at the burning bush was, Who are you? “So I will go to the Israelites and say,...