Lord George Gordon by Yirmeyahu Bindman

Two hundred years ago, England was a country undergoing profound transition and change. Faced with the loss of the American colonies and an uncertain future for the discontented masses, England was searching itself and its resources for an answer. At the time, the island kingdom was home to only a few thousand Jews, immigrants from Europe looking for a better life without ghetto restrictions, despite the exclusive laws that still existed. Isolated from the wellsprings of Torah on the continent, their path to the future was likewise difficult and stained. But these two strands came together in the person of one man, Lord George Gordon, an English nobleman and Member of Parliament fired by a deep commitment to divinity, which brought him through the storms of English controversies to his final destiny as a ger tzedek, a righteous convert who became a learned and observant Jew. Gordon’s zeal and enthusiasm were more than English society could endure; as the American Revolution divided and