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Why Is Jonathan Sacks Fighting Progress?

Yoni Goldstein | Posted 01.25.2012 | Canada
Yoni Goldstein

Last week, the chief rabbi of Britain decried the late Steve Jobs, specifically consumerist society. Of all Orthodox rabbis, he is the one who is supposed to understand the intrinsic value of an iPad, because that device, and the consumerist culture that ultimately begat it, represents choice and the prospect of greater knowledge.