Templeton Prize Lecture: Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

9 May 2016

Meeting with interfaith student leaders

Meeting with interfaith student leaders

Eric Priest, Gillian Greenwood and Geoffrey Jackson- Hutt

Eric Priest, Gillian Greenwood and Geoffrey Jackson-
Hutt

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with schoolchildren

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with schoolchildren

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks discussion with schoolchildren

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks discussion with schoolchildren

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with Eric Priest and schoolchildren

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks with Eric Priest and schoolchildren

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks lecture

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks lecture

After the lecture with Dr Jasmine Gani, Prof Eric Priest,  The Most Rev David Chillingworth, The Rt Rev Angus  Morrison, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, The Most Rev Leo  Cushley, The Rt Rev Prof Tom Wright

After the lecture with Dr Jasmine Gani, Prof Eric Priest,
The Most Rev David Chillingworth, The Rt Rev Angus
Morrison, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, The Most Rev Leo
Cushley, The Rt Rev Prof Tom Wright

Dinner guests

Dinner guests

Lecture

Questions and answers session

Biography

Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksA global religious leader, philosopher, award-winning author and moral voice for our time, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks was recently named the winner of the 2016 Templeton Prize.

Rabbi Sacks is currently the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University. He is also Professor of Law, Ethics and the Bible at King’s College London. Previously, Rabbi Sacks served as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth between September 1991 and September 2013, only the sixth incumbent since the role was formalised in 1845.

 

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