So many others have questioned God in Abraham’s footsteps, most notably Moses, Jeremiah and Job. This dialogue between a ...
Democracies have taken great pains to separate religion and the workings of law and politics. And surely, the intimacy of the religious connection of the human being and God should not be subject to ...
This essay is one of the winning submissions to the Rabbi Sacks Essay Contest. Drawing on the teachings and writings of Rabbi ...
(JTA) — Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who passed away on Nov. 7, 2020, left a legacy that is well known: As Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, he led a renewal of ...
“You mix religion and politics, you get terrible politics and even worse religion,” the former chief rabbi of Great Britain said. (JTA) — American Jewish rabbis are erring by endorsing — and opposing ...
LONDON, England — Catholics have joined faith leaders from around the world to offer prayers and tributes, after the death of Rabbi Jonathan Lord Sacks, the internationally renowned philosopher, ...
(JNS) Stepping down in 2013 after 22 years as chief rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks did not retire to Israel. Instead, the Cambridge University-educated ...
When my husband Jeff and I learned that Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks had passed away on November 6, we could not help but cry. Neither of us had ever met the former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, ...
The death of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks—Ya’akov Tsvi Zaks—on November 7, 2020 in London, at age seventy-two, is a blow to the world. He was a rare and precious man, who taught not only the Jewish ...
Unpublished writings and out-of-print work by the late biblical scholar and former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks, will soon be available online. The Jewish digital library Sefaria ...
(RNS) — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, a widely admired teacher and prolific writer who connected Jewish thought with a larger concern for universal human values, ...
Perhaps the greatest rabbinic communicator of our era, the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, zt”l, remains one of the most popular Torah authors in the world today. Hundreds of thousands have devoured ...