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Five years after his death, online course aims to make Rabbi Sacks’s philosophy go global

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:01:21 +0000

A scholar mentored by Sacks hopes to preserve and disseminate the former UK chief rabbi’s legacy as one of the greatest modern Jewish thinkers

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Posthumous Bible commentary by ex-UK chief rabbi seeks to unseat a synagogue staple

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:52:48 +0000

'Ethical insights that apply to people's everyday lives': Five years after Jonathan Sacks died suddenly from cancer, Koren Publishers releases commentary culled from his works that it believes sets a new standard

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‘We need a moral revolution’: Social scientist Robert Putnam on fixing a fractured society

Sun, 25 May 2025 02:08:37 +0000

In Israel to accept an award from the Jonathan Sacks Institute, the Harvard professor and author reflects on polarization, pluralism and his friendship with the late UK chief rabbi

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‘Capacity for faith is light of the Jewish people’: Biden marks start of Hanukkah

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 10:14:06 +0000

President cites quote from former UK chief rabbi Sacks that a people who can 'walk through a valley of shadow of death' and still can rejoice cannot be defeated by force or fear

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Israeli leaders commemorate UK chief rabbi Sacks: ‘He made the world better’

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 20:22:31 +0000

PM Lapid says he still keeps former British chief rabbi's book close; Herzog hails his writings as a 'fountain of strength, originality'

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King Charles III: A friend to UK Jewry, with special and historic ties to Israel

Sat, 10 Sep 2022 04:35:12 +0000

Royal has long had good relationship with British Jews; outspoken on antisemitism; shored up Israel bona fides in recent years with official visit; also empathetic to Palestinians

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What if Maimonides gave a TED talk? - Sponsored Content

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 10:41:12 +0000

Drawn from the teachings of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z’l, 'The Power of Judaism' curriculum explores Jewish traditions and teachings that shape the human condition

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TED Talks Meet Ancient Wisdom in New Curriculum - Sponsored Content

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 08:40:14 +0000

Drawn from the teachings of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z’l, 'The Power of Judaism' curriculum explores Jewish traditions and teachings that shape the human condition

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Herzog to meet with Boris Johnson, Jewish leaders in UK visit next week

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 04:04:51 +0000

President and first lady will participate in tribute event marking one year since death of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

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Daily Briefing Oct. 28 – On being Jewish in Israel

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:10:40 +0000

Ops and blogs editor Miriam Herschlag and reporter Amy Spiro discuss the new head of the Reform movement in Israel and the ongoing issue of non-Orthodox marriages

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At yeshiva fundraiser, Jill Biden pays tribute to Jonathan Sacks

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:56:05 +0000

'We mend the world one life at a time, one act at a time, one day at a time,' first lady says at annual dinner for Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in Detroit

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Amy Chua – Liberalism’s Story (In Memory of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks) - Sponsored Content

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:46:03 +0000

To commemorate Rabbi Sacks' life and legacy, Rabbi Lamm speaks with one of the last people to ever be in public conversation with him: Professor Amy Chua of Yale Law School

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Jonathan Sacks’ final book takes top place at 2020 National Jewish Book Awards

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:42:56 +0000

'Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times' joined by dozens of other varied works as winners named by Jewish Book Council

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Prince Charles leads Lord Sacks memorial: I’ll miss him more than words can say

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 21:11:51 +0000

Heir to the throne, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Reuven Rivlin among leaders joining online commemoration event for late former chief rabbi, Jewish News reports

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Prince Charles mourns UK’s Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: ‘He spanned sacred and secular’

Sun, 08 Nov 2020 14:51:20 +0000

Charles calls Sacks 'a leader whose wisdom, scholarship and humanity were without equal'; Netanyahu cites his 'insights on the heritage of the Jewish people and on anti-Semitism'

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