After listening to Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, I could no longer see belonging as optional or peripheral. It became sacred.

The transition from not being Jewish to feeling and thinking Jewish is a gradual one. In Islam and Christianity God comes first. The proclamation that “Allah is God and Muhammad is his Prophet” makes ...

Unpublished writings and out-of-print work by the late biblical scholar and former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks, will soon be available online.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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2023 Sacks Conversation took place at Carnegie Hall on October 31, serving as a significant contribution to the ongoing dissemination and celebration of Rabbi Lord ...

To a young Jessica Sacks growing up in England, the country’s towering chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, was more than just a distant religious figure — he was an uncle. “He was very busy, so we didn’t get ...

Last week the Safra Center in New York City held an event commemorating the 20th anniversary edition of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ “A Letter in the Scroll,” and his upcoming fourth yahrzeit. I sat down in ...

Dr. Tanya White and Rabbi Itamar Rosensweig in conversation at the Sept. 10 event in Bala Cynwyd. (Photo credit: Jonathan Gilbert via The Rabbi Sacks Legacy) On the evening of Sept. 10 at Gratz ...

The BBC issued an apology to British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks after a presenter asked him about the Gaza operation while he thought he was off the air. Sacks presented the “Thought for the Day” on ...

As I was writing this essay, a newspaper headline caught my eye. It read: “The UK’s richest people have defied the double-dip recession to become even richer over the past year.”[1] This is in spite ...

The early 20th century novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once quipped that “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ...