Jonathan Sacks

Tells the history of the Jewish people and of the legacy four thousand years of persecution and exile have given to not just the Jewish people, but also the rest of the world.

This book explores the challenges of bridging the gap between tradition and modernity through a study of four great Jewish thinkers, and includes studies od the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian dialogue, Jewish economic ethics and religious alienation and return.it also sets out an agenda for future jewish thought.

One of Judaism's most distinctive and challenging ideas is its ethics of responsibility. We have been given the gift of freedom and we in turn have to honour and enhance the freedom of others. More than in any previous generation, we have been tempted to imagine that it is the individual's needs which are the sole source of meaning. Rabbi Sacks argues that such preoccupation with oneself is a mistake. Ethics are concerned with the life we live together, and the goods we share only exist by virtue of being shared.

The role of the Sunagogue in Jewish life today.