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November 16, 2020

For Jews and for Gentiles, Jonathan Sacks Was a Prophet Who Warned of the Dangers of Secularism

Perspectives from a rabbi and from a Muslim.

With the recent death of Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of Great Britain, the Jewish people lost one of their foremost leaders and teachers. But to Meir Soloveichik, Sacks’s greatest legacy might have been in his ability to convey Judaic ideas to people of other faiths and of no faith at all. Soloveichik writes of the man he calls “the most gifted voice for biblical belief in his time”:

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November 16, 2020

  1. Normalization with Egypt Should Be Israel’s Next Peacemaking Goal

    The time may be ripe for a cold peace to thaw.

  2. For Jews and for Gentiles, Jonathan Sacks Was a Prophet Who Warned of the Dangers of Secularism

    Perspectives from a rabbi and from a Muslim.

  3. Saeb Erekat’s Life Was Dedicated to Preventing Peace

    A man who justified meeting generous proposals with violence.

  4. One Georgia Senatorial Candidate Has a Record of Slandering Israel

    Raphael Warnock.

  5. Mourning the Loss of Four Great Scholars of Jewish Ideas

    And understanding the two rival forms of religious Zionism.