“A good dose of discomfort is almost certainly necessary”
Abbey Road may be synonymous with The Beatles, but it’s also the home of New London Synagogue (NLS). Hayden Cohen caught up with their rabbi, Jeremy Gordon, for the penultimate episode of the Bagel Podcast's run on JR. The pair discuss marriage under Masorti Judaism (Conservative in America) and how it contrasts with the British default that is Orthodox weddings; Ted Chiang stories; and of course NLS’s founder – and one of the most dominant figures of 20th-century British Jewry – Rabbi Louis Jacobs. Note: this interview was conducted in January 2020.
Discover more: newlondon.org.uk and louisjacobs.org.