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This week’s parashah reading as well as Shavuot, which we start celebrating Sunday evening, confront us with gifts that go beyond the giving of charity. They are the gift of a first born and the gift of Torah.

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

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.

One of Melissa’s projects during the current lockdown has been writing an invited essay for a book edited by Professor Aaron Rosen that will be called Home Alone Together: Locating Creativity and Inspiration in Isolation.

Plenty of challenges with a vulnerable adult in the house. The best and worst thing about this extraordinary time is Zoom.

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