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Shlomo Riskin

Shlomo Riskin is the chief rabbi of Efrat and the founder and chancellor of Ohr Torah institutions, a network of high schools and colleges including a rabbinical seminary and a center for advanced halakhic studies for women. His most recent book is The Living Tree (Maggid).

Fall 2016

Necessary Power: A Rejoinder to Jonathan Sacks

Shlomo Riskin

When Rabbi Sacks writes, “It is not our task” (and it was not Abraham’s task) “to conquer or convert the world or to enforce uniformity of belief. It is our task to be a blessing to the world. The use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry,” it seems to me that he oversimplifies matters.

Fall 2016

Religion, Power, and Politics: An Exchange

Shlomo Riskin, Jonathan Sacks

Rabbi Riskin's review of Rabbi Sack's latest book ignited a discussion on the role of power in Judaism.

Summer 2016

Religion and Power

Shlomo Riskin

Rabbi Sacks, who is in the end an optimistic thinker, sees a process of internecine violence leading to religious moderation happening within Islam now.