Lord Sacks believes the defining achievement of his time as Chief Rabbi has been an unprecedented transformation in the status and confidence of British Jewry.
“We have strengthened the standing of the Jewish community in the wider society,” he said. It is now “more active, exuberant and self-confident” than ever before.
Lord Sacks, who steps down at the end of this month, said: “You see the signs of that everywhere, from JW3 [London’s new Jewish community centre], to lighting candles in Trafalgar Square, to doing Sefer Torah dedications while dancing through the streets in the suburbs.”
The trebling in the number of Jewish day school places means that “we will have more Jewish grandchildren than might otherwise have been the case”.
