A New Concept of Freedom
On 20th March, Rabbi Sacks delivered a pre-Pesach shiur to students at University College London. The shiur focussed on … Read more
Category: Morality & Ethics
Not Your Parents’ Crisis: A Conversation between Rabbi Sacks and Prof Jonathan Haidt
In October 2017, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks and NYU Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership Jonathan Haidt discussed moral dilemmas … Read more
The Power of Interaction Between the Generations (Thought for the Day)
This week, research was published showing that spending as little as ten minutes a day talking to someone with … Read more
Rabbi Sacks launches a new series of whiteboard animations videos focused on some of the key challenges of the 21st century
Following on from the success of his videos on Jewish identity, the BDS movement, and the mutation of antisemitism, Rabbi … Read more
‘The Politics of Hope’
In this new series of six whiteboard animation videos to be published online during the coming year, Rabbi Sacks takes … Read more
The world our children will inherit tomorrow is born in the schools we build today (House of Lords)
On Friday 7th December 2017, Rabbi Lord Sacks spoke in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s debate on the role of education in … Read more
Truth emerges from disagreement and debate (Thought for the Day)
Coming in to Broadcasting House this morning I saw for the first time the statue unveiled this week, of George … Read more
The state is no substitute for personal responsibility in the sensationalist age of the iPhone
People in their hundreds camped out overnight in central London to be among the first to buy the new iPhone X last … Read more
Fake news erodes the moral ecology on which liberty depends (Thought for the Day)
Yesterday a major British dictionary named as its 2017 word of the year the phrase “fake news.” At least I … Read more
Rabbi Sacks receives The Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise Institute
On 24th October in Washington DC, Rabbi Sacks received the Irving Kristol Award, the highest honour bestowed annually by the American Enterprise … Read more