ABSTRACT
Rabbi Sacks is currently the best-known British rabbi. He is very active in the media and has been involved in the field of inter-religious dialogue and commenting on current events (e.g. anti-Semitism, materialism and secularism, events in Israel, etc.). In addition to his Jewish studies, he is also a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and King's College, London. He received rabbinical ordination at Jews’ College and Yeshiva Etz Chaim in the Golders Green neighbourhood in London. His approach to Judaism falls within modern Orthodoxy (but his attitudes are attacked by some Haredi rabbis – for example, by Yosef Shalom Elyashiv). In 2005, Rabbi Sacks was knighted and until 2013 he was the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. He has also written numerous books.
