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In this public lecture, Rabbi Lord Sacks, as Professor of Law, Ethics &#038; the Bible at King\u2019s College London and Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University, reflects on how we might challenge this situation and confront this violence, and do so in the name of God. 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