Most Clicked This Week
- How many people today even know that Bobby Kennedy, a vocal supporter of Israel, was killed by a Palestinian terrorist?
- October 7th looked like the return of an ancient Jewish nightmare. What followed showed why this era of Jewish history is fundamentally different.
- "The kingdom is open for business and tourists, in the context of rapid social change, which has some conservative Saudis anxious changes are coming too fast"
- “Of course, it’s a good time; there’s never been a bad time to buy in Israel. It’s not just a financial investment but an emotional and spiritual one, too”
- "What is “Kids 4 Peace” and why is this group asking a Jewish camp to raise the PLO flag?"
- Matti Friedman: “To free its people, Israel negotiates with terrorists and releases murderers. Is that a strength or a weakness?”
- Dershowitz: “The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a "deal." It was an extortion”
- Another myth dispelled: "Although the Israelis gave Gaza to the Palestinians, the Israelis never took Gaza from the Palestinians"
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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Tagged Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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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
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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Tagged Jerusalem, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Yom Yerushalayim
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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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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Bereshit, Genesis, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Rambam, Shabbat, Thomas Jefferson
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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