Tag Archives: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Left- and Right-Brain Judaism – Tzav 5780, Family Edition

Click on the image below to download this week’s Family Edition of Covenant & Conversation for Tzav. The Family Edition is an accompaniment to the main Covenant & Conversation and is aimed at making Rabbi Sacks’ ideas more accessible to older children and teenagers. It includes a number of questions to enhance your Shabbat discussions, […]

A D’var Torah by Rabbi Sacks on Vayikra in the age of the coronavirus pandemic

TRANSCRIPT – Click here to download as a PDF Friends, I’m speaking to you in isolation, from my home in London. I wanted to express our thanks to all those who are fighting on the frontline of COVID-19. The doctors, the nurses, the keyworkers, the support staff, the teachers, the people filling the shelves in […]

Rabbi Sacks on the coronavirus pandemic (Extended Newsnight interview)

On Tuesday 17th March, Rabbi Sacks was interviewed by Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight about how the themes of his new book Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times* relate to the current Coronavirus situation. Please find the full interview below. * You can buy a copy of Rabbi Sacks’ book here (except in the United States or Canada where the […]

Communities and Crowds – Vayakhel-Pekudei 5780, Family Edition

Click on the image below to download this week’s Family Edition of Covenant & Conversation for Vayakhel-Pekudei. The Family Edition is an accompaniment to the main Covenant & Conversation and is aimed at making Rabbi Sacks’ ideas more accessible to older children and teenagers. It includes a number of questions to enhance your Shabbat discussions, […]

Moses Annuls a Vow – Ki Tissa 5780, Family Edition

Click on the image below to download this week’s Family Edition of Covenant & Conversation for Ki Tissa. The Family Edition is an accompaniment to the main Covenant & Conversation and is aimed at making Rabbi Sacks’ ideas more accessible to older children and teenagers. It includes a number of questions to enhance your Shabbat […]

Rabbi Sacks: ‘We live in an age of armchair morality’ (published in The Sunday Telegraph)

Lord Sacks says the West is in ‘dark’ times, but has faith that young people – Generation Z – will turn things around By Peter Stanford; first published in The Sunday Telegraph on 8 March 2020 It takes a brave man today to publish a book with the title Morality – or a foolish one. In […]

Dressing to Impress – Tetzaveh 5780, Family Edition

Click on the image below to download this week’s Family Edition of Covenant & Conversation for Tetzaveh. The Family Edition is an accompaniment to the main Covenant & Conversation and is aimed at making Rabbi Sacks’ ideas more accessible to older children and teenagers. It includes a number of questions to enhance your Shabbat discussions, […]