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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks spends a weekend in L.A. envisioning the Jewish future

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Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks spends a weekend in L.A. envisioning the Jewish future
Rabbi Sacks singing with the Shabbaton Choir. From left: Rabbi Lionel Rosenfeld of the Western Marble Arch synagogue, Sacks, Rabbi Y. Boruch Sufrin of Hillel Hebrew Academy and Cantor Shimon Craimer of the Riverdale Jewish Center. Photo by David Miller

Swiping his finger to the left, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Britain’s now-former chief rabbi, and arguably the world’s most prominent religious Jewish leader, was looking for a text he felt might show how Orthodox Jews can spread a Jewish message to the Western world.

He wasn’t leafing through the Talmud, and he didn’t have in mind a specific passage from the Torah. He wasn’t even looking for a Jewish text.

He was browsing his iPad, and after a few seconds lost in his app collection, he finally found what he was looking for.

“The Waste Land” — a poem by T.S. Eliot, an American-born Englishman widely regarded as among the 20th century’s most influential literary figures.

By Jared Sichel

 

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