Jonathan Sacks

Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks Kt ( born March 8, 1948 in London) is currently a British Chief Rabbi. His official title is Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. His Hebrew name is Yaakov Zvi. As spiritual leader of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue Association in the UK, he is Chief Rabbi of the mainstream of Orthodox synagogues, but not religious authority for the Federation of Synagogues, the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations or for the progressive movements, Masorti, Reform and Liberal.

Life

Sacks attended St Mary's Primary School, Secondary School Christ's College, East Finchley, the Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, New College, University of Oxford, King's College, University of London and the London School of Jewish Studies. He also attended the Talmud Etz Chaim Yeshiva high school in London.

Sacks studied philosophy and graduated at King's College London, graduating with a Ph.D. from.

He was also honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, University of Glasgow, University of Haifa, Middlesex University, Yeshiva University, University of Liverpool and University of St Andrews awarded. He is Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and King's College London.

Sacks is Chairman of the Chief Rabbi 's Cabinet, which consists of fourteen other rabbis who advise him on various areas, such as Jewish education, Israel, Jewish- Christian relations, matters that the Beth Din and other areas that relate to the Jewish community. The Chief Rabbi 's Cabinet meets quarterly. Its members are entitled to represent the Chief Rabbi at public events.

Sacks was director of the Jews' College, London, the world's oldest rabbinical seminary, as well as 1978-1982 rabbi of Golders Green, and from 1983 to 1990 Marble Arch in London. He was ordained by both the Jews' College and Etz Chaim Yeshiva of the Rabbi.

Sacks was a regular guest on TV and radio. He writes articles in the national press. He presented the 1990 BBC Reith Lectures on The Persistence of Faith.

Current positions

  • Rabbi and Spiritual Leader of the Western Marble Arch Synagogue, London ( since May 1, 2004)
  • Jakobovits Professor in Modern Jewish doctrine, Jews' College London, 1982
  • Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth ( since September 1, 1991)
  • Visiting Professor of Theology at King's College London
  • Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 1993
  • Presentation ( Honorary ) Fellow, King's College London, 1993

Former positions

  • Professor of moral philosophy, Middlesex Polytechnic, 1971-1973
  • Lecturer at Jews' College London, 1973-1982; Head of the Jewish institutions 1983-1990; Rector, 1984-1990
  • Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex, 1989-1990
  • Sherman Lecturer at the University of Manchester, 1989
  • Riddell Lecturer at the University of Newcastle
  • Cook Lecturer at the University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews
  • Visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Awards

  • 2001: Honorary Doctorate in Theology ( Doctor of Divinity ) in recognition of his first ten years as Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury
  • 2004 Grawemeyer Award for Religion for his book The Dignity of Difference
  • 2005: In recognition of his social services and inter - religious dialogue bag was raised in the Queen 's Birthday Honours List for Knight.
  • 2006: Honorary Freeman of the London Borough of Barnet.
  • On July 13, 2009 Sacks was recommended as a life peer with a seat in the House of Lords by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. He was appointed on 1 September 2009 for Life peer as Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London.
  • 2010: Honorary doctorate from the University of Basel

Controversies

Orthodox opposition

A group of rabbis, especially Rabbi Bezalel Rakow, accused Sacks of heresy against the tradition of Orthodox Judaism in his book The Dignity of Difference, in which he indicated that Judaism is not the only true religion. This led Sacks to rework the book in the second edition and supplement. He refused, however, books that were already on the market to call back.

Rabbi Gryn and Rabbi Jacobs

Sacks sparked a fierce controversy in the Anglo- Jewish community, when he refused to attend the funeral of Rabbi Hugo Gryn. A private letter from the bag, which he wrote in Hebrew, and in which he asserted that Gryn " was one of those who destroy the faith " was known and published by an indiscretion. Sacks further wrote that he was an "enemy" of the Reform, Liberal and Masorti movements, which had some come to believe, is not Chief Rabbi Sacks of all Jews in Britain.

He attended a memorial service for Gryn, which caused some anger in the ultra- Orthodox community. A similar point of view represented and the Beth Din bag, as they that kept people the retired rabbi Louis Jacobs, who was involved in the establishment of the English section of the Masorti movement, on Saturday to read publicly from the Torah before the wedding of his granddaughter.

Works

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