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 The initial words of parashat Lech Lecha provide us with the very first instruction given by God to Avram. “You, go forth from your land and your birthplace and your father’s house to the land I will show you.”

Our rabbinic ordination took place on Sunday across four synagogues and three countries in the College’s first ever international, live broadcast ceremony. Click here to see the film of our first international ordination. Please share the link with your family and friends.

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During the 3 weeks running up to Tisha B’Av it is traditional to study the midrash to Lamentations, Eichah Rabbah. For our 3 week study, we will begin with the book of Lamentations itself, move on to an extended midrash from the opening section of Eichah Rabbah, and conclude with some contemporary reworkings of […]

Ahead of the opening of the British Library’s new exhibition, Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word, Jewish Renaissance’s Arts Editor Judi Herman explored it via a virtual private view. There she met Cassy Sachar, librarian at Leo Baeck College

Mati Kirschenbaum will be the Progressive movement’s first rabbi to grow up in post-Communist Poland: www.thejc.com/community/community-news    

We are very pleased to share this “Rabbis Re-inventing Judaism in COVID-19” podcast with the LBC community