Exodus, The Long View
3500 years ago Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, instructing them to ‘Remember this day on which you went out of Egypt.’ Does the retelling of the Exodus and the Passover story have relevance to contemporary events in the UK and Europe in terms of forming national identities and developing different concepts of freedom?
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Alex Goldberg is Jewish Chaplain to the University of Surrey, barrister, and human rights activist. He is former Community Issues Director at the Board of Deputies of British Jews, a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought and member of the BBC's Religion and Ethics Conference. He recently completed his rabbinical ordination at Bevis Marks Synagogue Montefiore program.
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