Jonathan Sacks Obituary: As an understudy at Cambridge Jonathan Sacks thought about croquet than contemplating the Torah. At that point the Six-Day War in June 1967 transformed him.

“The whole Jewish world was bolted on what appeared to be an unfurling misfortune and it looked as though a second unimaginable holocaust was going to happen,” he disclosed to Sue Lawley on Desert Island Disks, quickly prior to being introduced as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth in 1991. “Individuals who had never recognized themselves as Jews out of nowhere turned up at the college temple. The air creeped you out. We were alarmed, and, obviously, when the war finished in six days with a huge triumph for Israel, the arrival of feeling