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Israel needs new leadership: Could covenantal politics be the answer? - opinion

Israel’s significant integration into the world economy, our population growth, and economic progress made it possible for us to pick up some bad habits of the countries it wanted to emulate.

People at polling station during the Likud party internal elections in Tel Aviv, July 27, 2026.
AN ISRAEL Day event on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan takes place last June. There is a significant increase in the number of Diaspora Jews who identify with Israel and show increased involvement in Jewish activity in their community, according to a JPPI survey cited by the writer.

Diaspora Jewry is not dying, it is changing - opinion

CHABAD ‘SHLUCHIM’ gather in front of 770 Eastern Parkway, New York, in 2022.

'Engaging the Essence': The Lubavitcher Rebbe as philosopher - review

Rabbi Sacks program reaches 70,000 Israeli students in second year.

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


Letters to the Editor November 9, 2020: Hail to the chief rabbi

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Rabbi Sacks' soul-nourishing book on the parsha

It truly lives up to its title, Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible.


Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of Great Britain, has died

Sacks was diagnosed with cancer in October and stepped back from his work to focus on his treatment.

Lord Jonathan Sacks, theologian, author, and former Chief Rabbi of the UK.

Grapevine October 25, 2020: A moment of prayer for two contemporary sages

It’s interesting that Jewish males go through life as the sons of their fathers, except when they are ill, at which time they revert to being the sons of their mothers.

A WALK to Israel team

Rabbi Sacks, former chief rabbi of England, diagnosed with cancer

Rabbi Sacks served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013.

Lord Jonathan Sacks, theologian, author, and former Chief Rabbi of the UK.

Avoiding politics is political, no matter what Rabbi Sacks says - opinion

As Elie Wiesel taught us: “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Lord Jonathan Sacks, theologian, author, and former Chief Rabbi of the UK.

Rabbi Sacks on politics from the pulpit: ‘US Jewry is making a mistake’

The consequence of blurring the line between politics and Judaism can be significant, Sacks said.

What I have described may be common experiences for many American Jews today who are trying to be both pro-Israel and fight for social justice

Rabbi Sacks: China's persecution of Uighurs a 'desecration of faith'

As a Jew, the sight of people being shaven headed, lined up, boarded onto trains, and sent to concentration camps is particularly harrowing.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Jonathan Sacks’s literary attempt to restore ‘the common good’

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’s new book, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times is an impressive tour d’horizon of the state of the western world.


Widespread concern over Israel-Diaspora relations, poll finds

72% of American Jews either identified more strongly with Israel than before or identified as strongly as before.

President Rivlin at Amos Oz memorial event - 7 February 2020