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Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks
British rabbi
1948 – 2020aged 72
Jonathan Sacks served as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013, then spent his later years as a public philosopher, holding professorships at NYU, Yeshiva University, and King's College London while writing widely on religion, ethics, and modern life. He won the Templeton Prize in 2016 for work affirming life's spiritual dimension, and served as a senior fellow to the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.