Perhaps the greatest rabbinic communicator of our era, the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, zt”l, remains one of the most popular Torah authors in the world today. Hundreds of thousands have devoured ...

This month, more than 150 communities and day schools across the globe will join together in marking the second anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l, the former Chief Rabbi of ...

The Orthodox Union, Rabbinical Council of America and Yeshiva University have joined together to create a moving video tribute to former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks that highlights his teachings, ...

words to stop it being rhymeless. The California poppy which was flourishing in a superbloom while I composed this poem, was presumably one of the plants God created on the third day described as ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2023 Sacks Conversation took place at Carnegie Hall on October 31, serving as a significant contribution to the ongoing dissemination and celebration of Rabbi Lord ...

Why did Moses tell Pharaoh, if not a lie, then less than the full truth? Here is the conversation between him and Pharaoh after the fourth plague, arov, “swarms of insects:” Pharaoh summoned Moses and ...

I admire Hertz’s willingness to engage directly with modern issues relevant to biblical criticism and classical English Bible commentaries, drawing from both Jewish and non-Jewish literary sources to ...

For each of us there are milestones on our spiritual journey that change the direction of our life and set us on a new path. For me one such moment came when I was a rabbinical student at Jews’ ...

The Torah reading on the first two days of Sukkot (Leviticus 22:26-23:44) outlines the festivals that give rhythm and structure to the Jewish year. Examining them carefully, however, we see that ...

In a much-watched TED Talk, Simon Sinek asked the following question: how do great leaders inspire action? What made people like Martin Luther King and Steve Jobs stand out from their contemporaries ...

To gain insight into the unique leadership lesson of Yetziat Mitzrayim, I often ask an audience to perform a thought-experiment. Imagine you are the leader of a people that have suffered exile for ...

It was Joseph’s first real attempt to take his fate into his own hands, and it failed. Or so it seemed. Consider the story so far, as set out in last week’s parsha. Almost everything that happens in ...