What Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’ State of the Jewish World Teaches Us Today - AJC & Books and Beyond

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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

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4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks stood on the AJC Global Forum stage and delivered a powerful call to action. Over a decade later, at AJC Global Forum 2025, AJC’s Director of Jewish Communal Partnerships, Meggie Wyschogrod Fredman, revisits that message in a special crossover episode between 'People of the Pod' and 'Books and Beyond' the podcast that delves deeply into (and beyond) four of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' books, created and hosted by Tanya White, a Sacks Scholar of the Rabbi Sacks Legacy.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to People of the Pod, brought to you by American Jewish Committee.
0:21.0	Each week, we take you beyond the headlines to help you understand what they all mean for America,
0:25.8	Israel, and the Jewish people. I'm your host, Manja Brashear-Pashman.
0:46.7	On this week, 16 years ago, the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks published Future Tense,
0:52.8	a powerful vision of the future of Judaism, Jewish life, and the state of Israel in the 21st century.
0:56.4	Five years later, he delivered a progress report on that future to AJC Global Forum. On the sidelines of this year's Global Forum, my colleague
1:02.6	Meggie Wichagrod Fredman spoke with two guests from the Rabbi Sachs legacy, which was established
1:07.9	after his death in 2020 to preserve and teach his timeless and universal wisdom.
1:13.9	In 2014, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sachs addressed our global forum stage to offer the State of the Jewish
1:21.0	world. Modeled after the U.S. President's State of the Union speech given every year before
1:26.1	Congress and the American people,
1:28.0	this address was intended to offer an overview of what the Jewish people were experiencing
1:32.7	and to look towards our future. The full video is available on AJC's website, as well as the SACS legacy website.
1:40.1	For today's episode, we are holding a crossover between AJC's People of the Pod podcast
1:45.9	and Books and Beyond the Rabbi Sachs podcast.
1:50.1	On Books and Beyond, each episode features experts reflecting on particular works from Rabbi Sachs.
1:57.1	Channeling that model, we'll be reflecting on Rabbi Sachs' state of the Jewish world here at
2:03.1	AJC's 2025 Global Forum in New York.
2:07.6	AJC has long taken inspiration from Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sachs, and today, AJC and the
2:13.9	Rabbi Sachs legacy have developed a close partnership. To help us understand his insights,
2:19.9	I am joined by two esteemed guests. Dr. Tanya White is one of the inaugural scholars and the founder
2:26.8	and host of the podcast Books and Beyond, the Rabbi Sachs podcast. Joanna Ben Aroche is the global
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