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Sacks, Jonathan Henry was born on March 8, 1948. Son of Louis David and Louisa (Frumkin).
(In a paradigm of true leadership, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, ...)
In a paradigm of true leadership, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of sainted memory, embraced all issues of import to Jews, Jewish life, and beyond, spurring a Jewish revival that continues to gain momentum even after his passing. Through his incisive and illuminating Torah expositions, the Rebbe inspired an awareness of a attainable higher reality and sparked an enthusiasm for Torah study among scholars and layman alike. The essays collected here are selected from the Rebbe’s investigations of the weekly Torah portion. In these studies of our most sacred text, the Rebbe weaves together many centuries of traditional Jewish scholarship, focusing them through the prism of his intense Chassidic spirituality. Time and again the result is a fresh insight into the great themes of Jewish life, themes no less relevant today than in our long and distinguished past. Torah Studies represents only a fragment of the vast body of the Rebbe’s teaching. His collected writings and disourses are gathered in more than 200 volumes and constitute an immense legacy to future generations. They include Torah exposition, analysis of Jewish law, Talmudic discourses, explorations of Jewish mysticism and letters of guidance to Jews throughout the world. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, adapter of this work, is Chief Rabbi of Great Britian.
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Sacks argues that faiths must remain open to criticism, keep alive their separate communities and still contribute far more to national debates on moral issues. they m,ust also learn to get along better. His thesis is that we still live under a Biblical canopy and that a cohesive morality needs the uniting bonds of faith. Confidence in a faith is a subtle quality and lack of it shows in many ways, some contradictory. Dr Sacks has that confidence and the quiet charisma to communicate it. The subject of this book - religions and ethics- is good ground for him to build on: The Jewish contribution to ethics is distinctly rational and has a long and illustrious tradition. Moral philosophy is after all a Jewish preoccupation. In recent years, he writes, religion has taken us unawares. The rise of the Moral Majority in the USA, the Islamic Revolution, the growth of religious parties in Israel, the power of Catholicism in Poland and the African continent all run contrary to the basic thesis that modernity and secularization went hand in hand and could almost be regarded as synonyms. Instead and against all prediction religion has resurfaced in the public domain. In this book Sacks argues the case for a broadly based return to tradition within the context of religious pluralism and tolerance. Religious values remain a strong force within our culture to be renewed. For our society to be viable indeed they must be renewed.
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Sacks argues that faiths must remain open to criticism, keep alive their separate communities and still contribute far more to national debates on moral issues. they must also learn to get along better. His thesis is that we still live under a Biblical canopy and that a cohesive morality needs the uniting bonds of faith.
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This work is based upon the 1989 Sherman lectures given at Manchester University's Comparative Religion Department. It examines the often bewildering diversity of post-Holocaust Jewish thought on the central terms of Judaic existence, the problems of suffering, the meaning of redemption, the nature of exile, the concept of a covenantal people, the character of Jewish law, the ideas of revelation, tradition and interpretation, and the understanding of providence in relation to covenantal history. This cluster of concepts forms the basis of modern as well as of traditonal theological reflection on the meaning, substance and direction of Jewish life. The study is not a personal statement on the part of the author - rather, it is a thematic survey of Jewish thought over the past half-century, one of the most traumatic and transfigurative periods in the annals of one of the world's most ancient peoples.
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Henry A. Giroux is one of the most respected and well-known critical education scholars, social critics, and astute observers of popular culture in the modern world. For those who follow his considerably influential work in critical pedagogy and social criticism, this first-ever collection of his classic writings, augmented by a new essay, is a must-have volume that reveals his evolution as a scholar. In it, he takes on three major considerations central to pedagogy and schooling.The first section offers Giroux’s most widely read theoretical critiques on the culture of positivism and technocratic rationality. He contends that by emphasizing the logic of science and rationality rather than taking a holistic worldview, these approaches fail to take account of connections among social, political, and historical forces or to consider the importance of such connections for the process of schooling.In the second section, Giroux expands the theoretical framework for conceptualizing and implementing his version of critical pedagogy. His theory of border pedagogy advocates a democratic public philosophy that embraces the notion of difference as part of a common struggle to extend the quality of public life. For Giroux, a student must function as a border-crosser, as a person moving in and out of physical, cultural, and social borders. He uses the popular medium of Hollywood film to show students how they might understand their own position as partly constructed within a dominant Eurocentric tradition and how power and authority relate to the wider society as well as to the classroom.In the last section, Giroux explores a number of contemporary traditions and issues, including modernism, postmodernism, and feminism, and discusses the matter of cultural difference in the classroom. Finally, in an essay written especially for this volume, Giroux analyzes the assault on education and teachers as public intellectuals that began in the Reagan-Bush era and continues today.
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(Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Britain A Torah disc...)
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Britain A Torah discourse of the Lubavitcher Rebbe usually revolves around a question, sometimes seemingly microscopictension serving as a point of departure for the Rebbe`s discussion. To hear or read such a discussion is to embark on a journey in which we are challenged and forced to move, and at the end stand far from where we began.Here, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, serves as guide to that journey, elucidating the question in each discourse and explaining its context. In this collection of lucid adaptations of the Rebbe`s talks on the weekly Torah readings and Jewish holidays, each question is not only resolved but also revealed to be the starting point of a major spiritual search, a journey to the inner sanctum of Torah. With descriptive introductions to each chapter and extensive indexes, Torah Studies is an important gateway to the Rebbe`s teaching and legacy.
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On the road to the White House, Barack Obama succeeded in breaking barriers and bringing together an often-fragmented population through his speeches, interviews, and words. He revealed an outstanding ability to express the thoughts and aspirations of the whole nation in a language that is populist yet intelligent, clear yet literary. The Politics of Hope celebrates Obama’s immense rhetorical power and ability to inspire, convince, and unitea skill that took him from the backyards of Des Moines” to the Oval Office. Covering the whole of his career and featuring iconic as well as less well-known speeches, this collection captures Obama’s great passion for language and reveals the hopes and dreams of the world’s most powerful man.
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Faith in the Future addresses some of the major themes of our time: the fragmentation of our common culture, the breakdown of family and community life, the lack of moral direction, and the waning of religious belief. How, Sacks asks, can we construct a humane social order that honors human dignity and difference, one in which we can be both true to ourselves and a blessing to others? In the confusing state of postindustrial societies in the post-Cold War situation, can we give those who come after us a coherent map of hope? In treating such questions, Faith in the Future is structured in four parts. In the first, "The Moral Covenant, " Sacks touches on the broadest of issues: morality, the family, and the importance of communities in the life of society. In the second, "Living Together, " he asks how we can co-exist while remaining faithful to our distinctive identities and traditions. In the third, "Jewish Ethics and Spirituality, " he sketches some of Judaism's leading themes. "There is such a thing, " says, as an ecology of hope, and it lies in restoring to our culture a sense of family, community, and religious faith.
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Sacks, Jonathan Henry was born on March 8, 1948. Son of Louis David and Louisa (Frumkin).
Student, Gonville College, Cambridge, England. Master of Arts, Caius College, Cambridge, 1972. Graduate, Jews' College, London, 1976.
Graduate, Yeshivat Etz Hayyim, London, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, New College, Oxford, London, 1981. Doctorate (honorary), Cambridge University, 1993.
Doctorate (honorary), Middlesex University, 1993. Doctorate (honorary), Haifa University, 1996.
Lecturer talmud and in philosophy, 1976-1982. Appointed Jakobovits professor of modern Jewish thought, since 1982. Director Rabbinic Faculty, 1983-1990.
Principal Jews' College London, 1984-1990. Rabbi Golders Green Synagogue, 1978-1982, Marble Arch Synagogue, 1983-1990. Visiting professor philosophy University Essex, 1989-1990.
Reith lecturer British Broadcasting Corporation, 1990. Chief rabbi United Hebrew Congregations, British Commonwealth, since 1991. Lecturer Middlesex Polytechnic, 1971-1973, Jewish College, 1973-1976.
(Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Britain A Torah disc...)
(Faith in the Future addresses some of the major themes of...)
( On the road to the White House, Barack Obama succeeded ...)
( Sacks argues that faiths must remain open to criticism,...)
(Sacks argues that faiths must remain open to criticism, k...)
(This work is based upon the 1989 Sherman lectures given a...)
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(The Persistence of Faith: Religion, Morality and Society ...)
(The Persistence of Faith: Religion, Morality and Society ...)
(In a paradigm of true leadership, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, ...)
( Henry A. Giroux is one of the most respected and well-k...)
Author: Torah Studies, 1986, Traditional Alternatives, 1989, Tradition in an Untraditional Age, 1990, The Persistence of Faith, 1991, Argument for the Sake of Heaven, 1991, Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, 1991, Crisis and Covenant, 1992, One People? Tradition, Modernity and Jewish Unity, 1993, Will We Have Jewish Grandchildren: Jewish Continuity and How to Achieve It, 1994, Faith in the Future, 1995, Community of Faith, 1995, Politics of Hope, 1997. Editor: L'Eylah: A Journal of Judaism Today, 1984-1990, FKC, 1993, Traditions and Transition, 1986. Contributor articles to books, and journals.
Honorary fellow Kings College, London, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
Son of; married Elaine Taylor, 1970. 3 children.