Jonathan Sacerdoti

And Zion, Jerusalem, has been the focus of our prayers since Jews were expelled from Jerusalem.

Given that that's the case and that Judaism wishes for people not to become Jewish, we don't want converts.

Unlike Islam, we don't want to sell our religion to you.

It's an exclusive religion.

If you want to become Jewish, it's traditional for you to be rejected three times.

And only when you come back after that will they consider you're taking it seriously enough.

So we will admit converts.

We will welcome converts, people who are interested in studying and taking on the faith.

But it's not our mission.

It's not our aim.

Our aim is to carry out

our own lives, and ultimately, religiously and culturally, Judaism yearned not to spread around the world and take over, but to return to its homeland.

The very thing that today we're accused of being evil for trying to do with the re-foundation of Israel, the rebirth of Israel in 1948.

And suddenly that return, which is the opposite of Jewish migration, is seen as an evil.

Well, there is zero credible evidence for that, but it harks back to a very traditional and medieval era of Jew hatred.

Even in Norwich in this country in 1140, I think it was, there was a case of this.

The idea was traditionally back then that Jews kidnapped or raped.

sacrificed children, and particularly what they said was that they would use the blood of children, Christian children, for baking matzot.

Matzot are the little crackers that we eat at Passover when we don't eat bread.

It's a festival when we remember the exodus of the Jews from Egypt, from slavery into freedom.