Despite a bounty of competitors, The Birnbaum machzor, first published in 1951 remained a staple of Orthodox synagogues largely because the 'worshipper is not called upon to search from page to page and to commute from reference to reference'
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Two years ago, ex-Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks passed away at 72 years of age; in honor of an event celebrating his memory, we asked some public figures about how the religious leader shaped their lives