Liberal Jews including our movement’s CEO, Rabbi Charley Baginsky, feature in a new book titled What Does a Jew Look Like?

Written by Leo Baeck College Senior Lecturer Keith Kahn-Harris, the book will launch with a panel discussion at JW3 on Monday 11 April.

The panel will include Keith and Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith, who served Mosaic Liberal Synagogue for more than 20 years and has also worked as a professional photographer. They will be joined by Rob Stothard – who took the photos for the book – and Fiona Shields, Head of Photography at The Guardian.

You can buy event tickets here.

What Does a Jew Look Like? features portraits of British Jews to showcase some of the many different ways people can be Jewish in Britain today. Alongside the portraits each subject explains what it means to them to be a Jew.

Keith said: “What Does a Jew Look Like? aims to showcase the diversity of the British Jewish community. Naturally, Liberal Jews are an important part of that bigger whole. The book includes not just a portrait of Rabbi Charley Baginsky, but other Liberal-affiliated Jews as well.”

Charley added: “Too often when a story about Jews or Judaism appears in the media it is illustrated only by a picture of a man in a black hat. This wonderful book shows the true diversity of our community and I am proud to be featured in it.”

You can pre-order your copy here.

Picture: Rabbi Charley Baginsky photographed in What Does a Jew Look Like? by Rob Stothard.