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Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
UK: Gov't wants to balance Chief Rabbi peerage with prominent Muslim The government is preparing to give a peerage to the head of the Muslim Council of Britain, even though government links with the organisation are officially suspended. Ministers are keen to find a prominent Muslim to enter the House of Lords as a way of balancing the peerage given to Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks earlier...
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Hirhurim - Musings (Free subscription) | yesterday
R. Michael Broyde has exhausted the discussion of the permissibility of observing Thanksgiving ( link ). I'd like to discuss here the reason why, assuming observing Thanksgiving is permissible, it is a good thing. In The Home We Build Together , R. Jonathan Sacks argues that multiculturalism is destroying Western countries. When everyone clings exclusively to their ethnic heritage, there...
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Love Undefiled (Free subscription) | yesterday
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, author of some wonderful books such as the dignity of difference, recently gave the Annual Theos Lecture in which he looked at religion in 21st century Britain. He asked the following 3 questions: Why has religion survived? What place does it have in the liberal democratic state? What are the imperatives and opportunities for the future? I was most struck by...
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Hirhurim - Musings (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
I recently made a list of good outreach books for a friend. Let me present it here with a little elaboration: Books that try to convince and respond to challenges: Nineteen Letters by R. Samson Raphael Hirsch Anvil of Sinai by R. Zechariah Fendel On Judaism by R. Emanuel Feldman A book that tries to inspire about the mission of a Jew: A Letter in the Scroll by R. Jonathan Sacks Click...
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Thinking Anglicans (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Judith Maltby writes in the Guardian about the Creation Museum. Madeleine Bunting writes at Cif belief about The rabbi’s moral muddle. Giles Fraser writes in the Church Times about Checks and balances in the City. Jonathan Sacks writes in The...
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New Humanist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Over at Comment is Free, my response I to Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks's lecture last week suggesting we are all too selfish to make enough babies to preserve Western European culture. Just so you know.
