Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's Haggadah: Hebrew and English Text With New Essays and Commentary by Jonathan Sacks (Hebrew Edition)
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The chief rabbi's speech last week contained some dramatic soundbites. But the reasoning behind them doesn't stack up " Falling birth rate is killing Europe ", " Islam must separate religion from power ". Just two of the striking headlines that followed the Theos lecture last week , given by Jonathan Sacks. What had the chief rabbi said? Were strong headlines riding...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
By Riazat Butt, Guardian Europe is "dying" because its citizens are too selfish to have children, the chief rabbi has said, blaming a dwindling birthrate on a culture of "consumerism and instant gratification". Sir Jonathan Sacks accused people of caring more about shopping than spirituality and tied the secularisation of Europe to population decline. The chief rabbi,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
• People accused of being too selfish to be parents • Sacks says non-believers lack family values Europe is "dying" because its citizens are too selfish to have children, the chief rabbi has said, blaming a dwindling birthrate on a culture of "consumerism and instant gratification". Sir Jonathan Sacks accused people of caring more about shopping than...
BIG BLUE WAVE (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Says Lord Sacks: "Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy. Where today, in European culture with its consumerism and its instant gratification because you're worth it." There was no room for sacrifice for "the sake of generations not yet born" in such a culture. "Europe is dying," he concluded and compared the situation...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Author of The Compassionate Mind ; Mental health research unit, Kingsway hospital, Derby • Jonathan Sacks was indeed fortunate to be born in 1948. There were no wars, a relatively undegraded environment in town and countryside, education, cheap housing, pensions, to mention only some. Presumably this is the same (now Lord) Sacks who a day earlier was advocating increasing...
Hirhurim - Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
... B. Soloveitchik Don't Read This Essay by Reuven Rand Beginning the Conversation: A Review of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' Weekly Readings of Be-Reshit by Shlomo Zuckier
Times Online - Alan Coren (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
We are lucky just now in having a Chief Rabbi who is always worth listening to, whether in philosophical and social analysis or jokes. But in his Theos lecture last week, the thing that stuck with me came up casually in the question session at the end. It was about Islam in modern society. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks observed that the advantage of being Jewish is that for 2,600 years you have...
Secular Right (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question: By many standards, the JFS applicant, identified in court papers as “M,” is Jewish. But not in the eyes of the school, which defines Judaism under the Orthodox definition set out by Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. Because M’s [...]
normblog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Speaking to the Christian thinktank Theos, the chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks has said that Europe is dying on account of its falling birthrate. The text of his lecture is available here (follow the link at the foot of the column)....
Stand Your Ground (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, knows what he's talking about: The chief rabbi, who entered the House of Lords last week as Lord Sacks of Aldgate, made his comments in a lecture called Religion in the 21st century hosted in London by Theos, a Christian thinktank, on Wednesday night. While Sacks aired concerns shared by other clerics – about religion contributing positively...
Catholic Commentary (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I should really have given this post the proper title of Lord Sacks' lecture - "Religion in the Twenty-First Century". Jonathan Sacks is the Chief Rabbi here in the UK, and his lecture was the 2009 Annual Theos Lecture. H/T to Auntie Joanna who put me on to this; the Daily Telegraph report, to which Auntie Joanna links, is here . The homepage of Theos is here , and this...
Anglican Down Under (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Speaking to Theos, a UK public theology think tank, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has given (as we might expect) an outstanding lecture, 'Religion in Twenty-First Century Britain', excerpts of which are reproduced below. A report from Theos is here , and towards the bottom of that report you can click on a link which takes you to a Word document transcript of the lecture. Sacks touches...
Family Lore (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Further to my last post I read today that Dawkins is being blamed for falling birth rates across Europe ! This would be laughable, but for the fact that our government has recently seen fit to elevate the author of this nonsense, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks , to a position in the upper house of this country's Parliament. His argument appears to be that secularism equals selfishness and...
jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... funded is absolutely ruled out. Big Blue Wave reports on remarks from the chief rabbi in the UK , Jonathan Sacks , who commented recently on Europe's falling birth rate, stating, "We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it." Judie Brown at the American Life League blog exposes the fact that reprogrammed cells from umbilical-cord...
UK Commentators (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As so often, it takes a minority spokesman (or woman ) to say the unsayable in this country : Europe is "dying" because its citizens are too selfish to have children, the chief rabbi has said, blaming a dwindling birthrate on a culture of "consumerism and instant gratification". Sir Jonathan Sacks accused people of caring more about shopping than spirituality and tied...
