I first met Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks in 2004, when my dialogue partner Dr. Akbar Ahmed and I traveled to London as part of the Daniel Pearl Dialogue for Muslim-Jewish Understanding. Rabbi Sacks took a personal interest in this dialogue program.
He accompanied us to mosques and synagogues in the evenings and to Jewish and Muslim day schools in the mornings. I distinctly remember how he mesmerized the kids in a Muslim school with the story of Pharaoh's daughter, how she defied the law of the land and rescued baby Moses from the river, becoming a revered Jewish heroine, like Miriam, Ruth and Yael after her. There was not a kid in that school who did not aspire to replicate the humanity of Pharaoh’s daughter and be worthy of her legacy.
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