{"id":52580,"date":"2014-02-19T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52580"},"modified":"2014-02-19T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T21:19:58","slug":"lord-jonathan-sacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52580","title":{"rendered":"Lord Jonathan Sacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Jacob of Beverly Hills posts: &#8220;Please join us as we welcome Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks this Shabbat, February 22. Rabbi Sacks will give the Shabbat morning drasha in Shapell Sanctuary, with davening led by the Shabbaton choir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seems weird to call a Jew &#8220;Lord&#8221;. Isn&#8217;t this what caused Christianity?<\/p>\n<p>A British academic <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=52461\">told me<\/a> Sunday: \u201cFormer [Ashkenazi] Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks would jump on any bandwagon [including multi-culturalism] and then jump off it if he thought it was losing in popularity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Jacob of Beverly Hills posts: &#8220;Please join us as we welcome Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks this Shabbat, February 22. 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