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The Challenges Facing British Jewry

February 6, 2011 | Prof. Leslie Wagner

The challenges facing British Jewry now are little different from those that have faced Diaspora Jewry generally over the past one hundred years or more, namely, the twin problems of assimilation and anti-Semitism. The interesting questions today are whether the nature and context of these challenges are different at present, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, and how effective the community's response to these challenges is likely to be.

Gabriel A. Sivan on “From One End of the Earth to the Other”: The London Bet Din

April 20, 2010 | Dr. Gabriel Sivan

Rabbi Levy's Journey "From One End of the Earth to the Other": The London Bet Din, 1805-1855, and the Jewish Convicts Transported to Australia, by Jeremy I. Pfeffer, Sussex Academic Press, 2008, 355 pp. Reviewed by Gabriel A. Sivan

Gabriel A. Sivan on Faith against Reason: Religious Reform and the British Chief Rabbinate 1840-1990

October 10, 2009 | Dr. Gabriel Sivan

Religious Unity - A Vain Pursuit? Faith against Reason: Religious Reform and the British Chief Rabbinate 1840-1990, by Meir Persoff. Vallentine Mitchell, 2008, xxxi + 476 pp. Reviewed by Gabriel A. Sivan