Jonathan Sacks

In September 2010, BBC, Reuters and other news agencies reported on a sensational scientific discovery. Researchers at US National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado have shown through computer simulation how the division of th...

Liberty means freedom of the mind, not just of the body. Those who are confident of their faith need fear no question.

On 20th January 2017, one of the great rituals of modern politics will take place: the inaugural address of a new President of the United States of America. In this short study, the question I want to ask is: Do we really fully understand the significance...

What we want to happen, happens, but not always when we expect, or in the way we expect, or merely because we wanted it to happen.

We do not expect a sculpture to be incomplete, a poem to break off halfway, a novel to end in the middle. Yet that is what the Bible repeatedly does.

Sexuality matters to Judaism, not because it is puritanical but because it represents the love that brings new life into the world.

Why did Isaac love Esau? Did he not know about Rebecca’s oracle?

Throughout history, Jews were called on to value children. Our entire value system is built on it.

Abraham the father and Sarah the mother are our enduring role models of parenthood as G‑d’s gift and our highest vocation.

What went wrong? How did evil enter the picture, setting in motion the drama of which the Torah – in a sense, the whole of history – is a record?