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Monday 22 Feb 2010
JPR launches 'New Conceptions of Community'
During the past 15 months, JPR has been engaged in a conversation involving a small number of the most insightful practitioners and thinkers in the British Jewish community today. The participants in the conversation were drawn from as many sections of the Jewish community as possible and were chosen because of their direct involvement in creating a particularly interesting version of Jewish community, their capacity to think reflectively and their willingness to engage constructively and respectfully in dialogue with others.
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Monday 8 Feb 2010
Your people shall be my people – what is the big theory of Jewish Peoplehood?

If much of the data is to be believed, the ties that bind Jews together are becoming increasingly unraveled and frayed. Links between Jews in Israel and the Diaspora, between different denominations, between the political left and right, are all breaking down. Has the powerful idea of 'one people with one heart' become consigned to the dustbin of history? Can it be rebuilt and renewed? If so, what needs to be done?

This session, which was given by Yonatan Ariel and Jonathan Boyd, JPR's Executive Director, at Limmud 2009 can be heard by clicking the link below.

Wednesday 6 Jan 2010
From Jewish people to Jewish purpose: The new age of social innovation in American Jewish life, and its implications for British Jewry

Steven M Cohen, a leading sociologist of American Jewry, discussed the new age of social innovation in American Jewish life at a seminar for Jewish community professionals in December. The seminar was organized jointly by JPR and JHub, the London-based Jewish Social Action and Innovation Hub.

Professor Cohen described the efflorescence of independent, exciting and creative collective Jewish activity carried out by young people in their 20s and 30s in the United States over the past decade, and explained that such endeavours fitted mainly into five major categories.

Wednesday 18 Nov 2009
The Israel Survey
The Institute for Jewish Policy Research is about to conduct a national survey of the feelings and attitudes Jews in Britain have about Israel and their links to the country. It is being conducted online by Ipsos MORI in association with the Pears Foundation.
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Media coverage of JPR

The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 5 Mar 2010)
Charedim demand Hebrew, not Yiddish, census

by James Martin and Simon Rocker

Census to include questions in Yiddish for first time in 110 years — but the Orthodox argue it should be in Hebrew

The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 15 Jan 2010)
So, what do you really think about Israel?

British Jews are great supporters of the Jewish state aren’t they? We are about to find out

By Simon Rocker, 15 January 2010

The Jewish Chronicle (Tuesday 12 Jan 2010)
What turns young American Jews on

By Simon Rocker

Reasons to be cheerful: leading social scientist Steven Cohen highlighted some of the positive trends within American Jewry during a recent visit to London. You can now read a report of his observations here.

The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 8 Jan 2010)
JPR says Boyd is the new chief

By Simon Rocker, 8 January 2010

Jonathan Boyd, the acting director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research since April, has been confirmed as its executive director.

Mr Boyd, who has previously worked with the UJIA and the Joint Distribution Committee’s International Centre for Community Development, joined the institute a year ago as a research fellow.

The Jewish Chronicle (Thursday 7 Jan 2010)
Gaza questioned in Israel poll

The most detailed survey of what British Jews think of Israel was launched today by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research.

Conducted by Ipsos Mori and commissioned by the Pears Foundation, it consists of a questionnaire that takes about 15 minutes to complete online.

The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 1 Jan 2010)
Things are better, but not by much

The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 1 Jan 2010)
So is your voice being heard yet?

by Winston Pickett

Ten years ago, a controversial report called for changes in the way the views of the community are represented to the outside world. What has changed over those years?

The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 1 Jan 2010)
Grassroots left out in the cold

by Simon Rocker

If you were to ask, are British Jews better represented than they were a decade ago, then it would all depend on what you meant by “better”.

There is a difference between whether organisations are more effective in getting their message across, than whether collectively the views of British Jews are being more fairly represented by organisations that claim to speak for them.

The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 20 Nov 2009)
New survey: do you fly the flag for Israel?

The first full national survey on how British Jews feel about Israel is to be carried out early next year.

The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 20 Nov 2009)
There's no need for the gloom
Yes, Anglo Jewry has political problems. But we live vibrant lives.
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Comment is Free (Wednesday 18 Nov 2009)
Antisemitism and the reported world
Channel 4's Dispatches on Britain's Israel lobby perpetuated the same old antisemitic myth – and that has effects in the real world. To read Jonathan Boyd's article on the Comment is Free website click here.
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The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 9 Oct 2009)
Givers happily take the bait

by Alex Kasriel

Although Jews are supposed to give at least one-tenth of their income to charity, Institute of Jewish Policy Research figures suggest that 20-to-30-somethings are less likely to do so than their parents.

The Jewish Chronicle (Friday 28 Aug 2009)
My way, the Sinatra style of Judaism
Grassroots Jews may be a fringe group now, but their concept has huge implications for the future
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