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Monday 6 Dec 2010: 0 comments
The exception that disproves the rule
Launched 30 years ago by a group of Jewish educators in Britain, Limmud now rewrites the Jewish educational rule book.

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Thursday 22 Jul 2010: 0 comments
Judge for yourself
“What if the results are ‘bad’?” That question, more than any other, was the one raised most frequently whilst JPR carried out its survey of the attitudes...
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Friday 16 Jul 2010: 0 comments
Beyond the headlines – The relationship of Britain’s Jews to Israel
Why do British Jews appear to be both hawks and doves?
By Dr David Graham
Although it is the political headlines that will inevitably grab the...
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Thursday 25 Mar 2010: 0 comments
A succah in Trafalgar Square
During the month of March 2010, Miriam Shaviv published a daily proposal to transform the British Jewish community on her blog on the Jewish Chronicle website. Each...
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Tuesday 17 Nov 2009: 10 comments
Channel 4's Dispatches: shoddy, shallow and shameful
by Jonathan Boyd, Acting Director of JPR
Apparently, according to Channel 4’s Dispatches programme on Monday night, there are some wealthy Jews out there...
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Wednesday 26 Aug 2009: 0 comments
Relations between the European Jewish communities, their nation states and the institutions of the EU: the challenges of representation
by Gidon van Emden
Representing Europe’s Jews sounds like a huge task, but in reality, we are talking about some 1.1 to 1.5 million Jews inside the European Union....
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Tuesday 25 Aug 2009: 0 comments
The new political-organizational challenge of the Jews of the enlarged EU
by Sharon Pardo
There is no doubt that the European integration project presents a unique challenge for Jewish communities in Europe and I believe that if this challenge...
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Friday 7 Aug 2009: 0 comments
An Encounter with Bethlehem
by Gideon Sylvester
Last week, I visited Bethlehem. As an Israeli citizen, I am banned from entering most of the city and till now that has kept me away from the whole...
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Thursday 2 Jul 2009: 1 comment
One People Separated by a Common Language
by Jonathan Boyd
The British Jewish community rarely seems to feature on the worldwide Jewish map. It may have been significant a century ago, although probably only...
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Thursday 28 May 2009: 1 comment
Pope Benedict XVI's pilgrimage to the Holy Land
by Rabbi David Rosen
The fact that virtually all parties directly involved in the papal visit to the Holy Land (Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories) consider...
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