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Jonathan Sacks

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Former Chief Rabbi of UK
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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is the former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Rabbi Sacks is currently the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University. He has also been appointed as Professor of Law, Ethics, and the Bible at King’s College, London. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2005 and made a life peer in the House of Lords in October 2009. In 2016, he was awarded the prestigious Templeton prize for “bringing spiritual insight to the public conversation through mass media, popular lectures and more than two dozen books,” and for his “appreciation and respect” for people of all faiths.

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Friday, March 11, 2016

Seven Key Moments in History

Jonathan Sacks

“When a man and woman turn to one another in a bond of faithfulness ... we come as close as we will ever get to God himself.” Rabbi Sacks, winner of the 2016 Templeton prize, reflects on the meaning of marriage in human history.

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Not Just Good, but Beautiful

Pope Francis, Rick Warren, N. T. Wright, Gerhard Cardinal Müller, Jonathan Sacks, Wael Farouq, M. Prudence Allen, Nissho Takeuchi, Jean Laffitte, Ignacio Ibarzabal, Kala Acharya, Jacqueline C. Rivers, Tsui Ying Sheng, Henry B. Eyring and Russell Moore

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