October 2013). Professor of Jewish Thought, Yeshiva University, New York (announced 29 October 2013). Professor of Law, Ethics and the Bible at King's College, London (announced 5 December 2013) Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth (1 September 1991 – 1 September 2013) Lecturer in moral philosophy, Middlesex Polytechnic, 1971–1973 Lecturer, Jews' College London, 1973–82; director of its rabbinic facility, 1983–1990; Principal, 1984–1990 Visiting professor of philosophy at the University of Essex, 1989–1990 Sherman lecturer at the University of Manchester, 1989. Riddell lecturer at Newcastle University, 1993. Cook lecturer at the University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews, 1996. Visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998–2004. Sacks was also a frequent guest on both television and radio, and regularly contributed to the national press. He delivered the 1990 BBC Reith Lectures on The Persistence of Faith. Awards and honours Sacks was awarded numerous prizes including: 1995: Jerusalem Prize (Israel) 2000: American National Jewish Book for A Letter in the Scroll 2004: The Grawemeyer Prize for Religion (USA) 2009: American National Jewish Book Award for Covenant & Conversation Genesis: The Book of Beginnings 2010: The Norman Lamm Prize, Yeshiva University (USA) 2010: The Abraham Kuyper Prize, Princeton Theological Seminary (USA) 2011: The Ladislaus Laszt Ecumenical and Social Concern Award, Ben Gurion University (Israel) 2011: Keter Torah Award, Open University (Israel) 2013: The Sanford St Martin's Trust Personal Award for Excellence in Religious Broadcasting 2013: American National Jewish Book Award for The Koren Sacks Pesah Mahzor 2015: American National Jewish Book Award for Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence 2016: Templeton Prize, "has spent decades bringing spiritual insight to the public conversation through mass media, popular lectures and more than two dozen books" 2021: Genesis Prize Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded posthumously by Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Philosophy and views Much has been written about Sacks' philosophical contribution to Judaism and beyond. These include: (1) a volume on his work entitled Universalizing Particularity that forms part of The Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers series, edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes; (2) a book entitled Radical Responsibility edited by Michael J. Harris, Daniel Rynhold and Tamra Wright; and (3) a book entitled Morasha Kehillat Yaakov edited by Rabbi Michael Pollak and Dayan Shmuel Simons. Early influences In a pamphlet written to mark the completion of his time as Chief Rabbi entitled "A Judaism