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
Miles to Go Before I Sleep (Matot-Masei 5778)
Etre ailleurs, “To be elsewhere – the great vice of this race, its great and secret virtue, the great vocation of this people” So wrote the French poet and essayist Charles Peguy (1873-1914), a philosemite in an age of Anti-Semitism He continued: “Any crossing for them means the crossing of the desert The most comfortable houses, the best built from stones as big as the temple... Read moreVideos
Rabbi Sacks on ‘The Great Partnership’
At various times in history, including now, people have thought that there was a conflict between religion and science. At … Read more
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Seven Principles for Maintaining Jewish Peoplehood
Transcript Jews are an argumentative people We are the only civilisation, known to me, all of whose canonical texts are anthologies of arguments The prophets argued with God, the rabbis argued with one another, and each of those arguments is canonised, it's part of who we are And we are people of strong views We say “The Lord is my shepherd” but no Jew was ever a sheep I... Read moreBooks
Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible
In this companion volume to his celebrated series Covenant & Conversation, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks mines the weekly Torah portions for … Read more