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Wounded 'Amazing Race' star brings Rabbi Sacks’ message to Israeli students

President Isaac Herzog praised Liheyot Ye’udi at the President’s Residence, calling on students to continue spreading Rabbi Sacks’ teachings.

Rabbi Sacks program reaches 70,000 Israeli students in second year.
U2 SINGER Bono poses during a photocall for ‘Bono: Stories of Surrender’ at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in France, last year.

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US President Donald Trump listens, as his son-in-law Jared Kushner speaks, during the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, US, February 19, 2026.

What Moses would have asked about the Board of Peace - comment

 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, 1948-2020.

Editor's Notes: Even after his death, Rabbi Sacks' idea of antisemitism stays dangerously relevant


A Jewish speaker, a new mayor, and a signal to New York’s Jews - opinion

I still believe New York can choose life over death, courage over fear, and unity over the easy politics of scapegoating. But that choice begins with what you decide to protect on your first day.

Jewish New Yorkers rally in support of Israel during the 80th United Nations General Assembly, at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York City, US, September 26, 2025

Rachel Goldberg-Polin reflects how Rabbi Sacks's teachings helped her manage Hersh's captivity

Marking the anniversary of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's death, Rachel and Jon Goldberg-Polin shared they had found strength in the teachings of Rabbi Sacks after their son, Hersh, was murdered in Gaza.

 Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, speak on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's new Torah commentary is making waves in Israel five years after his death

Sacks, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, is the author of a posthumous volume that is challenging Israel’s top-selling Koren Tanakh.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Israel can overcome external enemies but its internal divisions are far more dangerous - opinion

If we remember our covenant, honor our allies, and choose hope over despair, we will not only survive – we will thrive.

DEMONSTRATORS CALL for the release of the hostages and an end to the Israel-Hamas War, in Tel Aviv this week. Israel will survive its external enemies; the greater question is whether we will overcome our internal divisions, says the writer.

25 touchstones for a moral compass: Lessons from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks - opinion

Whether in the context of a family, school, team, or community, these touchpoints will help orient us toward our true north, toward the way we most want to be.

 Former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks congratulates new Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, during a ceremony at St. John’s Wood Synagogue, in London, in 2013.

'Proud to be a Jew': Bringing Rabbi Sacks’ teachings to Israeli classrooms - interview

The brother of Rabbi Sacks, Alan Sacks, spoke to the Jerusalem Post about the new initiative to bring Rabbi Sacks’ teachings to Israel.

The late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Parashat Shemot: Women as leaders

The remarkable story of six heroines – six courageous women without whom there would not have been a Moses.

 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Rabbi Sacks’ wise words from the past speak to us today - opinion

The power of ideas, for Rabbi Sacks, resides in the ability of words to inspire and guide actions.

 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, 1948-2020.

Parashat ‘Vayishlach’: Be Thyself

"We have to resolve the tension in ourselves before we can do so for others. We have to be at peace with ourselves before we can be at peace with the world."

 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Parashat Vayetze: Light in dark times

To try, to fall, to fear, and yet to keep going: that is what it takes to be a leader. That was Jacob, the man who at the lowest ebbs of his life had his greatest visions of heaven. 

 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.