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In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.
Jonathan Sacks
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Jonathan Sacks
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: March 8
Died: 2020
Died: November 7
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St Pancras
London
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Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.
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In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
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