Jonathan sacks

Iran’s nuclear ambition is not just Israel’s problem - opinion

Iran’s leaders chant “Death to America” while pursuing nuclear power. This is not Israel’s problem alone; it is a threat to the West.

|BySHMUEL LEGESSE
AN IRANIAN FLAG is pictured near in a missile during a military drill, with the participation of Iran’s air defense units in October. (West Asia News Agency/Reuters)
People celebrate Purim in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem.

From Shushan to Tehran: Purim’s story repeats itself - opinion

Again and again, the pattern returns: a decree of destruction, a sudden fall, a people still standing.

|ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with police following an assault on two female Israeli soldiers in Bnei Brak, central Israel, February 15, 2026.

Are Irreconcilable differences stopping Israel from healing societal fracture? - opinion

After two female soldiers were chased in Bnei Brak, something sacred was fractured. What happens when Israel no longer feels like one nation?

|ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN
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

The question Moses would have asked, the one Rabbi Sacks would have asked, is whether anyone has thought about the giving.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN

Promoting a Judaism engaged with the world

An interview with former British chief rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks.

JUNE 12, 2014BySAM SOKOL
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks stands in the garden of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: We never forgot Jerusalem

Whenever Jews remembered Jerusalem something good came of it. Whenever they forgot Jerusalem, bad things happen.

JUNE 5, 2014ByJONATHAN SACKS
Jerusalem skyline 370