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Today we remember the wisdom of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who died last week at the age

of 72.

The extraordinary former chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth of Nations, he was one

of the world's deepest thinkers on the meaning of religion.

As a public speaker and teacher and author, he brought his Rabbi's eye to conflicts at the

heart of the 21st century, between science and religion, between religious others, and within

the fraught notion of the common good in many of our societies.

When I sat with Rabbi Sacks in 2010, we focused on what was perhaps his most famous book,

The Dignity of Difference.

You'll hear how he modeled a life-giving, imagination-opening, faithfulness to what some

might see as contradictory callings in the depths of his Orthodox tradition and others.

How to be true to one's own convictions while also honoring the sacred and civilizational

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