Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks, Ktis a British rabbi, philosopher and scholar of Judaism...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 March 1948
europe blind-spots intellectual
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
government needs citizens
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
demise century 18th-century
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
children writing past
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
art organization people
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.
thinking israel media
People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.
dream religious home
Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.
race europe two
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
war government revolution
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
passion wealth lifetime
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
causes purpose ought
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
matter creator mere
The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.
israel people safety
The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
lying universe
The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.