Praise and Recognition
In September 2001 the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on him a doctorate of divinity in recognition of his first ten years in the Chief Rabbinate of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
In 2004, his book The Dignity of Difference was awarded the Grawemeyer Award for Religion.
Sacks was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005 "For services to the Community and to Inter-faith Relations."
He was made an Honorary Freeman of the London Borough of Barnet in September 2006.
On 13 July 2009 it was announced that Sacks was recommended for a life peerage with a seat in the House of Lords by the House of Lords Appointments Commission. He took the style Baron Sacks of Aldgate in the City of London.
He was invited to the wedding of Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton as a representative for the Jewish community.
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