Links

Photos of Leo Baeck College taken by Dave Middleton

Resources (books + websites) for learning and conversion
- Reading list

 Institutions of Jewish Learning
- Leo Baeck College (London)
- Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies (Los Angeles)
- Paideia, the European Institute for Jewish Studies (Stockholm)
- The Conservative Yeshiva (Jerusalem)

Family
- Hugenholtz Genealogy (by Gerard Hugenholtz)
- Hugenholtz Family (wikipedia entry)

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