The Fall Lectures of 2010

Difference and Democracy in the Post-Secular World

Three Lectures by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

On October 11, 12, 13, 2010, Lord Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, spoke to a full Dome Room about the need and means for civilizational renewal in the West.

Jonathan Sacks Jonathan Sacks has been Chief Rabbi since September 1991. Prior to taking up his current post, Rabbi Sacks was Principal of Jews’ College, as well as rabbi of the Golders Green and Marble Arch synagogues. Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Sacks pursued postgraduate studies at New College, Oxford, and King’s College London, gaining his Ph. D. in 1981 and rabbinic ordination from Jews’ College and Yeshiva Etz Chaim. The Chief Rabbi received the Jerusalem Prize 1995 for his contribution to diaspora Jewish life, and was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 2005. He was made a Life Peer and took his seat in the House of Lords on October 27, 2009, where he sits on the cross benches as Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London.

Video recordings of his lectures are available in full here.

Read a full write-up of the event here.