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He retired after serving 22 years as chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, and this year he taught in the US at New York University and Yeshiva University and began leading a global religious response to religious violence and extremism. Interviewed at Congregation Shearith Israel<\/a> in New York City.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There\u2019s no quick fix here. You don\u2019t suddenly turn radicals into moderates. You have to educate a generation.” More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":25260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[4711,1784,417,5257,17856,9833,987,2747,991],"class_list":["post-25218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-anti-semitism","tag-holocaust","tag-islam","tag-islamic-extremism","tag-rabbi-jonathan-sacks","tag-religious-violence","tag-september-11","tag-united-kingdom","tag-war","topics-politics","topics-religious-leaders","topics-war-and-peace","faith-jewish"],"yoast_head":"\nRabbi Jonathan Sacks | February 13, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"He was Britain's chief rabbi for 22 years, and now he is leading a global effort against religious extremism.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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