Rabbi Jonathan Sacks ZT"L Panel Discussion (Part 1): His Life, Leadership, and Legacy (135)
Orthodox Conundrum
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Rabbi Sax's Connection to the State of Israel
He decided that the Smecha program at Jewish college should no longer operate and Smecha students should go to Israel. Rabbi Saxes was willing to kind of reduce perhaps his power base in London in order to get the best possible result. He really, even though he was even more British than I am perhaps, than he had a deep and strong and loving connection to the state of Israel. And there's one more thing which I don't think anyone's ever spoken about and I could be wrong. But my impression is that just after he left office, there was a crisis in British jury about its ability to speak about Israel or defend Israel.
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