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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Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition
Covenant & Conversation is kindly sponsored by The Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation. The Family Edition is kindly sponsored anonymously. … Read more
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Destructive and Self-Destructive (Tzav 5779)
This sedra, speaking about sacrifices, prohibits the eating of blood: Wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people (Lev 7:26–27) This is not just one prohibition among others The ban on eating blood is fundamental to the Torah For example, it occupies a central place in the covenant... Read moreVideos
Rabbi Sacks on ‘The Home We Build Together’
“How do you sustain a cohesive society in the midst of unprecedented religious and ethnic diversity? How, in an age … Read more
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Morality matters more than ever in a world divided by fear and faithlessness
What happens to national identity when everything holding a nation together disintegrates or disappears What happens to society when the focus of a culture is on the self and its icon, the “selfie” What happens when Google filters and Facebook friends divide us into non-communicating sects of the like-minded And what happens to morality when the mantra is no longer “We’re all in this... Read moreBooks
Covenant & Conversation: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible: Exodus
This collection makes Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ brilliant essays on the weekly Torah portions within Exodus available in book form for … Read more