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Bringing together a career's worth of professional expertise in law and commerce and a lifetime's worth of personal experience in traditional Judaism, Colin Lang meditates on the role this ancient ethic continues to play in our lives. While narrating everything from his family history to important changes in Britain's legal system that occurred during his tenure, Lang skilfully weaves in a spiritual lesson about justice as conceived of in the Hebrew Bible. Lang is particularly well situated to tell this story, growing up as a member of the Jewish community in England, where he attended Oxford, and, following National Service, practiced law for some fifty years, in which he served as a judge for two decades. In addition, as an elected member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, he is well qualified to describe the deep divisions within the Jewish world and to ponder what a future Jewish identity might look like. The inevitable collision of the author's secular and religious experiences has resulted in compromise, alienation, and guilt, all of which he acknowledges and thoughtfully invites readers to consider. Although his story is bookended by the appeasement of tyrants, Lang's faith ultimately transcends worldly transgressions, ending on a note of hope that the biblical imperative of justice may still prevail.

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I am happy to endorse Colin Lang's new book. He is a longstanding member of my congregation, and is our elected representative at the Board of Deputies. His book reveals much of his life and his core concern for the survival of Jewish identity in the modern world. - Rabbi Yossi Jacobs, Chief Minister, Birmingham Hebrew Congregation My cousin Colin was much influenced by his relationship with the Finestein family through his mother, and by the discovery of his father's family in Israel. He found his real home in the Law, and his twenty-one essays successfully invoke the major events and issues of his lifetime. - Dr Howard Cuckle, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds, UK

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PPE Oxford University, Solicitor and member of the English Law Society. He retired as a Consultant with one of the largest practices in the Midlands. He has served as a part-time Chairman of the Social Security Appeal Tribunal, and for 15 years was a Deputy District Judge in the County Court. He has lectured on the Human Rights Act 1998. He represents the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation at the Board of Deputies. He is a member of the Jewish Historical Society of England and a friend of the Jewish Museum.

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