Topic summary
Lord Sacks
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks.
Death
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that Sacks' leadership had a "profound impact on our whole country and across the world". Rabbi Meir Soloveichik wrote a tribute piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled "What Gentiles can Learn from Lord Sacks". Awarding the 2021 Genesis Prize Lifetime Achievement Award to Rabbi Sacks posthumously in late 2021, Israeli President Isaac Herzog paid tribute to him and praised him as "a master articulator of the Jewish foundation of universal values" who "unapologetically verbalized a proud, dignified Jewish identity."