Jonathan Sacks - Definition

Sacks studied Philosophy at Cambridge and obtained first class honours. He provoked considerable controversy in the Anglo-Jewish community when he refused to attend the memorial service of the late Reform Rabbi Hugo Gryn and a private letter he had written in Hebrew, saying that Reform Jews are "dividers of the faith", was leaked and published. He rejected demands that he should resign for these comments, claiming to have been using rabbinical jargon.

Current positions

1. Chief Rabbi Of Great Britain (since September 1, 1991)
2. Visiting Professor of Theology at Kings' College London
3. Honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
4. Honorary Fellow King's College London

Previous positions held

1. Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex
2. Sherman Lecturer at Manchester University
3. Riddell Lecturer at Newcastle University
4. Cook Lecturer at the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and St. Andrews
5. Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

The Chief Rabbi is also a frequent guest on both television and radio, and regularly contributes to the national press. He delivered the 1990 BBC Reith Lectures on The Persistence of Faith.

Books by Jonathan Sacks

1. Tradition in an Untraditional Age (1990)
2. Persistence of Faith (1991)
3. Arguments for the Sake of Heaven (1991)
4. Crisis and Covenant (1992)
5. One People? (1993)
6. Will We Have Jewish Grandchildren? (1994)
7. Community of Faith (1995)
8. The Politics of Hope (1997 revised 2nd edition 2000)
9. Morals and Markets (1999)
10. Celebrating Life (2000)
11. Radical Then, Radical Now (published in America as A Letter in the Scroll) (2001)
12. Dignity of Difference (2002)
13. The Chief Rabbi's Haggadah (2003)

External link

Official website (http://www.chiefrabbi.org/history-index.html)