Rabbi 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 ArticleThe Power of Interaction Between the Generations (Thought for the Day)
This week, research was published showing that spending as little as ten minutes a day talking to someone with dementia can make a real difference to their quality of life, alleviating their anxiety...
View ArticleNot Your Parents’ Crisis: A Conversation between Rabbi Sacks and Prof...
In October 2017, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and NYU Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership Jonathan Haidt discussed moral dilemmas in the age of social media. The conversation was moderated by...
View ArticleNot Your Parents’ Crisis: A Conversation between Rabbi Sacks and Prof...
In October 2017, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and NYU Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership Jonathan Haidt discussed moral dilemmas in the age of social media. The conversation was moderated by...
View ArticleA New Concept of Freedom
On 20th March, Rabbi Sacks delivered a pre-Pesach shiur to students at University College London. The shiur focussed on the concept of freedom and why it’s meaning and importance has been...
View ArticleRabbi Sacks on ‘The Great Partnership’
At various times in history, including now, people have thought that there was a conflict between religion and science. At the time of Galileo, when religion was the stronger of the two, religious...
View ArticleDoes God Play Dice? A Dialogue on Science and Religion
On Tuesday 12th June 2018, Rabbi Sacks took part in a public conversation with Professor Aaron Ciechanover entitled “Does God Play Dice? A Dialogue on Science and Religion”. The conversation took place...
View ArticleThe Contemporary Task of Judaism
On 7th June 2018, Rabbi Sacks delivered a keynote lecture at Bar-Ilan University entitled “The Contemporary Task of Judaism'”. The post The Contemporary Task of Judaism appeared first on Rabbi Sacks.
View ArticleThe team is bigger than the players; the game is bigger than the team...
Houses of worship tend to be rather empty today. So if the proverbial anthropologist from Mars came down to earth now and asked, ‘Where do the crowds congregate to see the great human drama...
View ArticleWe must use God’s gifts to lessen the suffering of humankind (Thought for the...
I couldn’t help but notice the headline in yesterday’s paper: “Losing your religion can be seriously good for your wealth.” Academics from the universities of Bristol and Tennessee have studied the...
View ArticleRabbi Sacks to present BBC Radio 4 series on ‘Morality in the 21st Century’
Radio 4 will explore morality in the 21st century with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who presents a series of five programmes examining this topic in early September. Over the daily episodes Rabbi Sacks...
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Investing Time – Ten life-changing principles from Rabbi Sacks as we approach...
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are festivals that ask us how we have lived thus far. Have we drifted? Have we been travelling to the wrong destination? Does the way we live give us a sense of purpose,...
View ArticleMorality matters more than ever in a world divided by fear and faithlessness
What happens to national identity when everything holding a nation together disintegrates or disappears? What happens to society when the focus of a culture is on the self and its icon, the “selfie”?...
View ArticleNeighbours are usually people like us. It’s strangers not like us we need to...
First broadcast on Friday 19 October 2018, on BBC Radio 4 This is National Hate Crime Awareness Week, and figures released by the Home Office show how serious the problem is. There’s been a forty...
View ArticleSometimes, alongside medical treatment, we need the touch of another to heal...
There was a very moving story this week, about one of the competitors in the Invictus Games. He was a former mine specialist in the Royal Navy, who had suffered post-traumatic stress disorder. He was...
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Physical Fear, Moral Distress (Vayishlach 5779)
Download the accompanying Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition for Vayishlach here. Twenty-two years have passed since Jacob fled his brother, penniless and alone; twenty-two years have...
View ArticleRabbi Sacks on ‘The Home We Build Together’
“How do you sustain a cohesive society in the midst of unprecedented religious and ethnic diversity? How, in an age of mass migration, do you integrate minorities without destroying their identity or...
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Letters to the Next Generation: Reflections on Jewish Life (Prizmah Edition)
Click on the image above to download a PDF version. Young Jews today are asking some very difficult questions about religion in general and Judaism in particular. Does faith make sense? Aren’t the new...
View ArticleRabbi Sacks on Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
Below is a series of three whiteboard animations which explore different aspects of the return of antisemitism and the rise of anti-Zionism. THE MUTATION OF ANTISEMITISM (transcript) The first video...
View Article“Today’s politicians are too political”– Rabbi Sacks on BBC Newsnight
On Wednesday 22nd May, Rabbi Sacks was interviewed by Emily Maitlis for BBC Newsnight where he discussed the state of British politics. You can watch the full interview below. The post “Today’s...
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