Healing A Fractured World: Instability Refugees And Our Responsibility

The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 68 minutes

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On Wednesday 13th April, Rabbi Sacks took part in a public conversation with David Miliband, CEO and President of the International Rescue Committee and former British Foreign Secretary. Their discussion was entitled “Healing a Fractured World: Instability, Refugees and our Responsibility” and was moderated by Rebecca Blumenstein, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, The Wall Street Journal. It was hosted by New York University’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life and was part of the Selma Ruben Distinguished lecture series.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone. My name is Yehuda Sarna. I serve as the University
0:08.8	chaplain of NYU, New York University, and as the director of the Bronfen Center for
0:13.8	Jewish Student Life at NYU. We're here for a very, very important evening. Now if I
0:19.9	were to have a serious conversation about
0:21.9	global responsibility, I would not choose any other background music than
0:27.7	Vampire Weekend. That's the name of the band in Washington Square Park. This will
0:31.9	be ladies and gentlemen a very memorable evening. I want to thank our panelists for being here. The moderator,
0:40.3	Rebecca Blumenstein, is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Wall Street Journal.
0:45.3	Rabbi Sachs, member of the House of Lords, renter professor here at New York University,
0:51.3	and Mr. David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue
0:56.1	Committee.
0:57.1	Thank you very much for being here.
0:59.7	Good evening, everyone.
1:04.5	I think we can safely now say that we have spirited elections going on in both of our countries.
1:10.8	We will speak loudly, and for those of you watching this on podcast,
1:14.6	there's a Bernie Sanders rally slash concert going on outside.
1:19.6	So a perfect setting for this discussion.
1:21.6	I wanted to start off by taking us really to Europe
1:26.6	and what's happening more broadly with the refugee
1:29.1	crisis. All over the past year, pictures of the refugee crisis have, between pictures of the
1:35.5	election, really dominated the front pages of our paper and many papers across the country.
1:42.4	Rabbi Sachs, let me start with you.
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