Understanding Prayer: Heart, Mind and Soul
As we approach Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, join Rabbi Sacks in a series of ten short videos to learn what prayer really is and how it can change your life. To read the transcripts for these videos,...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Jewish Repentance (published in the Wall Street Journal)
The Ten Days of Repentance are the holy of holies of Jewish time. They begin this Wednesday evening with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and culminate 10 days later with Yom Kippur, our Day of...
View ArticleConfusing Satan – A pre-Rosh Hashanah / Yom Kippur shiur
To mark the launch of ‘Ceremony and Celebration: An Introduction to the Holidays’ (published by Maggid Books), Rabbi Sacks delivered a pre-Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur shiur entitled ‘Confusing Satan’....
View ArticleTechnology & Community: A Facebook Live discussion between Rabbi Sacks and...
On Monday 2nd October 2017, Rabbi Sacks did a Facebook Live discussion with Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s VP for EMEA, from Facebook’s London office. The conversation began by focussing on technology...
View ArticleReflections on Balfour 100
“Dear Lord Rothschild…” These three words helped to change the course of modern Jewish history and ultimately create the State of Israel. As we proudly approach the celebrations of the 100th...
View ArticleWhat Kind of People do We Want to Be: Finding a Moral Compass in Challenging...
On 23rd October 2017, Rabbi Sacks engaged in a public conversation with Dr. Carol Gilligan, the revolutionary psychologist and author of the landmark book, In A Different Voice, which transformed...
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Rabbi Sacks receives The Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise...
On 24th October in Washington DC, Rabbi Sacks received the Irving Kristol Award, the highest honour bestowed annually by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to individuals “who have made...
View ArticleFake news erodes the moral ecology on which liberty depends (Thought for the...
Yesterday a major British dictionary named as its 2017 word of the year the phrase “fake news.” At least I think it did, unless that too was fake news. And when you recall that last year another...
View ArticleThe state is no substitute for personal responsibility in the sensationalist...
People in their hundreds camped out overnight in central London to be among the first to buy the new iPhone X last week. I love my smartphone, not least because it’s smarter than me. But still, people...
View ArticleTruth emerges from disagreement and debate (Thought for the Day)
Coming in to Broadcasting House this morning I saw for the first time the statue unveiled this week, of George Orwell, with its inscription on the wall behind, “If liberty means anything at all, it...
View ArticleThe world our children will inherit tomorrow is born in the schools we build...
On Friday 7th December 2017, Rabbi Lord Sacks spoke in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s debate on the role of education in building a flourishing and skilled society. Below is a video and transcript of...
View Article‘The Politics of Hope’
In this new series of six whiteboard animation videos to be published online during the coming year, Rabbi Sacks takes a look at some of the key challenges facing our global society today. Each seeks...
View ArticleRabbi Sacks launches a new series of whiteboard animations videos focused on...
Following on from the success of his videos on Jewish identity, the BDS movement, and the mutation of antisemitism, Rabbi Sacks has launched a new six-part whiteboard animation video series. Each...
View ArticleWhat Kind of People do We Want to Be: Finding a Moral Compass in Challenging...
On 23rd October 2017, Rabbi Sacks engaged in a public conversation with Dr. Carol Gilligan, the revolutionary psychologist and author of the landmark book, In A Different Voice, which transformed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rabbi Sacks receives The Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise...
On 24th October in Washington DC, Rabbi Sacks received the Irving Kristol Award, the highest honour bestowed annually by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to individuals “who have made...
View ArticleFake news erodes the moral ecology on which liberty depends (Thought for the...
Yesterday a major British dictionary named as its 2017 word of the year the phrase “fake news.” At least I think it did, unless that too was fake news. And when you recall that last year another...
View ArticleThe state is no substitute for personal responsibility in the sensationalist...
People in their hundreds camped out overnight in central London to be among the first to buy the new iPhone X last week. I love my smartphone, not least because it’s smarter than me. But still, people...
View ArticleTruth emerges from disagreement and debate (Thought for the Day)
Coming in to Broadcasting House this morning I saw for the first time the statue unveiled this week, of George Orwell, with its inscription on the wall behind, “If liberty means anything at all, it...
View ArticleThe world our children will inherit tomorrow is born in the schools we build...
On Friday 7th December 2017, Rabbi Lord Sacks spoke in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s debate on the role of education in building a flourishing and skilled society. Below is a video and transcript of...
View Article‘The Politics of Hope’
In this new series of six whiteboard animation videos to be published online during the coming year, Rabbi Sacks takes a look at some of the key challenges facing our global society today. Each seeks...
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