On Monday 2nd October 2017, Rabbi Sacks did a Facebook Live discussion with Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s VP for EMEA, from Facebook’s London office. The conversation began by focussing on technology and community, but touched on a number of other issues as well.
Technology & Community: A Facebook Live discussion between Rabbi Sacks and Nicola Mendelsohn
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Ten Paths to God
Welcome to ‘Ten Paths to God’, a new 10-unit curriculum on Judaism and Jewish identity based on traditional sources and the teachings of … Read more
Covenant & Conversation
Love Is Not Enough (Acharei-Mot Kedoshim 5778)
The opening chapter of Kedoshim contains two of the most powerful of all commands: to love your neighbour and to love the stranger “Love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord” goes the first “When a stranger comes to live in your land, do not mistreat him,” goes the second, and continues, “Treat the stranger the way you treat your native-born Love him as yourself, for you were... Read moreVideos
‘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
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The hate that starts with Jews never ends there (published in The Times)
The novelist Rebecca West once said that Jews, having suffered so much, had an “unsurprisable soul”, In 2000 our daughter, then a university student, attended an anti-globalisation rally in London that turned into a tirade against America, then Israel and finally Jews “Dad, they hate us,” she said through her tears Hearing those words in Britain in the 21st century showed me that I had a... Read moreBooks
Covenant & Conversation: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible: Leviticus – The Book of Holiness
This collection makes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ brilliant essays on the weekly Torah portion available in book form for the first … Read more