Posts Tagged: jonathan sacks
Bar-Ilan Hosts Int’l Confab to Honor Jonathan Sacks’s Ideas
JNS.org - The Rabbi Sacks Legacy and Bar-Ilan University hosted a three-day international conference focusing on the views of the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks...
Yeshiva University Unveils $50,000 Sacks Book Prize to Inspire Jewish Thought
JNS.org - Erica Brown, vice provost for values and leadership and inaugural director of the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership, announced...
Late UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Honored With Genesis Award, Remembered as ‘Global Ambassador for the Jewish People’
The Genesis Prize Foundation on Monday posthumously awarded its Lifetime Achievement Award to the late chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, Lord Jonathan Sacks. Sacks served...
Great Rabbis Make the Torah Relevant Today
This week, I was privileged to participate in an international event that stretched across the globe, starting in New Zealand and Australia, and then finishing...
Israeli President Herzog Pays Tribute to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on First Yahrzeit: ‘Left an Enormous Void in Our Collective Jewish Life’
Israeli President Isaac Herzog commemorated on Tuesday the one year anniversary of the death of former UK chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks, saying that “few figures...
Marking the Yahrzeit of Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
The passing of former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks was a shock that occurs rarely in one’s life. It was like seeing a picture of a...
Remembering Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
In these uncertain times, we all feel adrift, and in need of guidance, wisdom, and leadership. There was a man who offered the world all...
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Spoke to People of All Faiths
The world continues to remember Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of England, who passed away last week at the age of 72. Rabbi...
Remembering Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
This week, we all grieve the loss of a very great man, scholar, and teacher, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Zeicher Tzadik Livracha. Many have spoken and...
Answering the Call: Parshat Vayera
The early history of humanity is set out in the Torah as a series of disappointments. God gave human beings freedom, which they then misused....
Dumbing Down the ‘Jewish Nobel Prize’
JNS.org - Did the Jewish people really need their own Nobel Prize? To the three wealthy Russian Jewish business “oligarchs” who endowed the Genesis Prize...
Parshat Ha’azinu: The Arc of the Moral Universe
In majestic language, Moses breaks into song, investing his final testament to the Israelites with all the power and passion at his command. He begins...
Parshat Nitzavim: How to Renew a Nation
The Talmud gives an ingenious reading to the line, “Moses commanded us a Torah, as a heritage of the congregation of Israel.” Noting that there...
Parshat Ki Tavo: Be Silent and Listen
During our first coronavirus lockdown, there was one question I was asked more than any other: What about prayer? Just when we needed it the...