Jonathan Sacks's Video 'Why I Am A Jew' Explores Themes of Identity Surrounding the High Holidays
Just in time for the annual season of Jewish introspection, Jonathan Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi of the UK, has gotten the self-questioning ball rolling with a new whiteboard animation characteristically titled “Why I am a Jew.”
The video, which is narrated by Sacks, opens almost satirically with an anonymous hand drawing a pensive-looking figure (Sacks), then expands into a more general array of Jewish symbols. Sacks uses this as a framework to emphasize the enduring value of particularism and “challenging the idols of every age,” in contributing to a better universalism.