Tag Archives: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

The late Rabbi Sacks on secularization: “Technology, the market, and the liberal democratic state “give us choices, but don’t teach us how to choose”

JERUSALEM POST A primer on the theology of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks by David M. Weinberg November 12, 2020 …Rather than elaborate further on his achievements and wide influence, I offer here a primer on Rabbi Sacks’ theology: his key concerns, … Continue reading

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“Wars are won by weapons, but peace is won by ideas”

RABBI JONATHAN SACKS BLOG June 24, 2015 …we are facing a phenomenon that the West has not known since the wars of religion in the 16th and 17th century. When they ended in one place, they began in another, and … Continue reading

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We Never Forget Jerusalem (Yom Yerushalayim 5775)

RABBI SACKS by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks May 15, 2015 Today is the 28th Iyar, Yom Yerushalayim, the day that marks when, on June 7, 1967, one day into the Six-Day War, Israeli forces captured the old city and reunified the … Continue reading

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The Genesis of Justice

RABBI JONATHAN SACKS BLOG October 14, 2014 There are words that change the world, none more so than two sentences that appear in the first chapter of the Torah: Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in … Continue reading

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The hate that starts with Jews never ends there

TIMES OF LONDON by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks August 16, 2014 As antisemitism rises, leaders of the great faiths must unite against the ruthless pursuit of power masquerading as religion  ……It has been this rush to judgment, the assumption that … Continue reading

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