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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, ZTL - Reflections on His Fifth Yahrzeit

JL;DR SUMMARY Marking the fifth yahrzeit of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Paul Shaviv offers a profound tribute to a man regarded as a leading modern Jewish thinker. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Rabbi Jonathan SacksOrthodox JudaismJewish LeadershipJewish PhilosophyInterfaith RelationsModern Orthodox JudaismIntellectual LegacyPaul ShavivKoren Sacks ChumashPublic Communication

Places mentioned

Chicago, Illinois, United States
"I had the privilege of attending one of Rabbi Sacks lectures when he was a scholar-in-residence at a shul here in Chicago a few years ago."
London, United Kingdom
"I knew him well, over a period of six decades, from the time we were teenagers in London, through time together as students at Cambridge, and years of subsequent friendship with him and Lady Elaine."
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
"I knew him well, over a period of six decades, from the time we were teenagers in London, through time together as students at Cambridge, and years of subsequent friendship with him and Lady Elaine."
Florida, United States
"Paul Shaviv is a retired Jewish educator, nowadays commuting between Florida and Jerusalem."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Paul Shaviv is a retired Jewish educator, nowadays commuting between Florida and Jerusalem."

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