The former UK Chief Rabbi was a model for a modern Orthodox generation, excelling in both Jewish and secular learning, and elucidating Jewish thought to a global audience with intellect and grace. But he bent those principles with the compromises he made with religious conservatives to his right
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the modern Orthodox ideal who couldn't thwart Orthodoxy's slide to the right
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