“Warmest human spirit”: UK’s former chief rabbi Sacks dies

LONDON (AP) — Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi in the U.K., has died at 72. Sacks reached beyond the Jewish community with his regular broadcasts on radio. A statement on his Twitter page said he died early Saturday. Sacks served as the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, the figurehead of British Jews, for 22 years, stepping down in 2013. He was succeeded by the current chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, who said the world had lost an “intellectual gi