Jonathan Sacks
ARTICLES BY: Jonathan Sacks
Parshat Re’eh: How Not to Be a Victim
I recently traveled to Toronto to meet Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. He has become an iconic intellectual for millions of young people, as well as...
Judaism and Making Love Last
Over the past few months, I’ve been having conversations with leading thinkers, intellectuals, innovators, and philanthropists for a BBC series on the moral challenges of...
Parsha Devarim: The Effective Critic
The first verse of Devarim, the fifth and culminating book of the Torah, sounds prosaic: “These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel...
Parshat Matot-Masei: Miles to Go Before I Sleep
“To be elsewhere -- the great vice of this race, its great and secret virtue, the great vocation of this people.” So wrote the French...
Parshat Pinchas: Jews Must Love Judaism, or the Faith Dies
A true story that took place in 1995 concerned the legacy of an unusual man with an unusual name: Mr Ernest Onians, a farmer in...
Parsha Balak: Assimilation Won’t Solve Antisemitism
This is an extraordinary moment in Jewish history for good and not-so-good reasons. For the first time in almost 4,000 years, we have simultaneously sovereignty and...
Parsha Chukat: The Consolations of Mortality
Parsha Chukat is about mortality. In it, we read about the death of two of Israel’s three great leaders in the wilderness -- Miriam and Aaron -- and the...
Korach: The First Demagogue and Populist
The story of Korach has much to teach us about one of the most disturbing phenomena of our time: the rise of populism in contemporary...
Parsha Shelach Lecha: Seeing What Isn’t There
In Philadelphia, there lives a gentle, gracious, grey-haired man, by now in his late-90s, whom Elaine and I have had the pleasure of meeting several...
Parsha Beha’alotcha — The Necessity of Friends
In this week’s parsha, Moshe reaches his lowest ebb. After all that had happened -- the miracles, the exodus, the division of the sea, food from...
Parshat Bamidbar: Stay Focused on Your Dreams
The books of Shemot and Bamidbar have some striking similarities. They are both about journeys. They both portray the Israelites as quarrelsome and ungrateful. Both...
Parsha Bechukotai — In Search of Why
The most often quoted of all Nietzsche’s remarks -- indeed one of the most quoted sentences in recent times -- is his statement, “One who has a why to...
Why We Must Give to Those in Need
The late Maurice and Vivienne Wohl were one of the most remarkable couples I ever met. They were a study in contrasts. Maurice was quiet,...
Emor: How to Make Use of Your Time on Earth
Time management is more than management and larger than time. It is about life itself. God gives us one thing above all: life itself. And...
