The Pesach Haggadah: Where it comes from and why it is full of children – Professor Jeremy Schonfield
The Haggadah grew out of sacrificial rituals from Temple times, but in its final form it offers much more than an opportunity to worship and to be educated, even though these are generally assumed to be its main functions.
Lehrhaus Spring 2021 Programme. Enrich your mind. Feed your soul.
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Sign up for our stellar Lehrhaus programme for the Spring 2021 Semester at Leo Baeck College. All our courses are taught by our outstanding faculty and specialist teachers. Please click on each course title for content and booking information.
Dr Laliv Clenman – Intermarriage in the Rabbinic Imagination
First in a series on intermarriage in the rabbinic literature, these masterclasses will explore a fascinating series of rabbinic halakhic (legal) and aggadic (narrative) texts on intermarriage, which was an extremely complex problem for the sages of antiquity. Texts will be provided in original and in translation – all levels welcome, from beginner to […]
British Library’s new exhibition
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
Leo Baeck College – ORDINATION 2020 – video
Leo Baeck College presents the Ceremony of Ordination (Semicha) 2020. We are so excited to share with you this brief video encapsulating the highlights of our socially distanced ordination service that took place on Wednesday, 29 July 2020 at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London.
We are delighted to share this Jewish Chronicle article about Rabbi Mati Kirschenbaum
Rabbis Re-inventing Judaism in COVID-19 podcast
We are very pleased to share this “Rabbis Re-inventing Judaism in COVID-19” podcast with the LBC community
JOIN US FOR SHACHARIT ONLINE
Since the beginning of the CV19 national lockdown student rabbis, faculty members and alumni from Leo Baeck College have been leading daily morning prayer services online.