Jonathan Sacks
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan Sacks
Parsha Ha’azinu 5779: The Need for Emotional Intelligence
In March 2015, I had a public conversation at Yale with the university’s president, Peter Salovey. The occasion was quite an emotional one. It celebrated...
Vayelech 5779: The Second Mountain You Must Climb
What do you do when you have achieved it all, when you have risen to whatever career heights that fate or providence has in store...
Parshat Nitzavim: The World Is Waiting for You to Act
Something remarkable happens in this week’s parsha, almost without our noticing it, which changed the very terms of Jewish existence and has life-changing implications for...
The Story We Tell
The setting: Jerusalem some 20 centuries ago. The occasion: bringing first fruits to the Temple. Here is the scene as the Mishnah describes it: Throughout...
Parsha Ki Teitse: Why We Must Aid Strangers as Well as Friends
Many years ago, Elaine and I were being driven to the Catskills, a long-time favorite summer getaway for Jews in New York, and our driver...
Parshat Shoftim: To Lead Is to Serve
Parshat Shoftim talks about monarchy: “When you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken possession of it and...
Parshat Re’eh: How Not to Be a Victim
I recently traveled to Toronto to meet Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. He has become an iconic intellectual for millions of young people, as well as...
Judaism and Making Love Last
Over the past few months, I’ve been having conversations with leading thinkers, intellectuals, innovators, and philanthropists for a BBC series on the moral challenges of...
Parsha Devarim: The Effective Critic
The first verse of Devarim, the fifth and culminating book of the Torah, sounds prosaic: “These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel...
Parshat Matot-Masei: Miles to Go Before I Sleep
“To be elsewhere -- the great vice of this race, its great and secret virtue, the great vocation of this people.” So wrote the French...
Parshat Pinchas: Jews Must Love Judaism, or the Faith Dies
A true story that took place in 1995 concerned the legacy of an unusual man with an unusual name: Mr Ernest Onians, a farmer in...
Parsha Balak: Assimilation Won’t Solve Antisemitism
This is an extraordinary moment in Jewish history for good and not-so-good reasons. For the first time in almost 4,000 years, we have simultaneously sovereignty and...
Parsha Chukat: The Consolations of Mortality
Parsha Chukat is about mortality. In it, we read about the death of two of Israel’s three great leaders in the wilderness -- Miriam and Aaron -- and the...
Korach: The First Demagogue and Populist
The story of Korach has much to teach us about one of the most disturbing phenomena of our time: the rise of populism in contemporary...
Israel to Deduct Money Sent to Family of Ari Fuld's Murderer from Funds Transferred to Palestinian Authority
University of Michigan Regent Denounces Professor's 'Antisemitic' Refusal to Recommend Student for Study in Tel Aviv
Blood-Stained Tallit Fragment Found at Site of 1940 Lodz Ghetto Pogrom
Leading Scottish Muslim Politician Slams UK Labour Leader Corbyn's 'Duplicity' on Antisemitism, Islamophobia
Israel Showed Russia Proof Syria Was Responsible for Downing Plane: Official