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In series 2 of the ‘Jews Do Count’ podcast, JW3’s Raymond Simonson and JPR’s Dr Jonathan Boyd explore how the events of October 7 and the subsequent year have changed British Jews, drawing on the brand new data from JPR’s landmark report ‘A year after October 7: British Jewish views on Israel, antisemitism and Jewish life’, with the help of top experts from the community. It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since the horrific attacks on Israel, when 1200 people were brutally murdered ...
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How has this past year affected our Jewishness? Has it changed our sense of attachment to Israel, the homeland of the Jewish People? Has it affected how we connect to the Jewish community here in the UK? Has it altered how we interact with our non-Jewish friends and colleagues? In the third and last episode of Series 2 of the ‘Jews Do Count’ podcas…
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The past year has clearly affected British Jews’s sense of security and belonging in the UK: our new data show that 30% of all adult British Jews reported personally experiencing antisemitism in the first nine months after October 7. And between the October 7 attacks, the war in Gaza, and all of the public and media reactions to it, many Jews in th…
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What do British Jews think about how the Israeli government, its leaders and its army have prosecuted the war? What do British Jews feel about Israel’s future, the two-state solution or the threat Iran poses to Israel’s existence? How do Jews differ on these topics? And how have all of these opinions changed in the past year? In the first episode o…
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In series 2 of the ‘Jews Do Count’ podcast, JW3’s Raymond Simonson and JPR’s Dr Jonathan Boyd explore how the events of October 7 and the subsequent year have changed British Jews, drawing on the brand new data from JPR’s landmark report ‘A year after October 7: British Jewish views on Israel, antisemitism and Jewish life’, with the help of top exp…
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What does the future hold for Jews in the UK? In the seventh and final episode of the 'Jews Do Count' podcast, Raymond and Jon look back on their journey into Jewishness today and try to predict the future of the Jewish community in Britain, while producer Richard Miron brings the voices of community members. What would the community look like in t…
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‘Kol Israel Arevim Zeh Bazeh’ – all members of the Jewish people are responsible for one another – says the Talmud. But do Jews in the UK feel that way today? In the sixth episode of the 'Jews Do Count' podcast, Raymond and Jon search for a Jewish Peoplehood: do we feel connected to other Jews in the UK and around the world? And if so, how exactly?…
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We're in the UK. It's 2024. Raymond and Jon really would prefer not to talk about antisemitism in the UK in 2024 in the fifth episode of the 'Jews Do Count' podcast. But they have to, as antisemitism is still the biggest concern among Jews in the UK and the entire world today. With the number of antisemitic incidents spiking following the 7 October…
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What is it about Jews and Israel? In the fourth episode of the 'Jews Do Count' podcast, Raymond and Jon try to explain the ties that bind Jews in the UK and Israel by sharing some personal stories about their own connections, and producer Richard Miron is sent to ask community members what Israel means to them and how the 7 October attack on the co…
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Can you have a strong Jewish identity without believing in God? In the third episode of the Jews Do Count podcast, Jon and Raymond discuss religiosity, and lack of it, with Joanne Greenaway, Chief Executive of the London School of Jewish Studies, looking at what the research shows about religious observance among British Jews, what the term means t…
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Most Jews think that values and morals are an important part of their Jewishness, but what morals and values are they referring to exactly? In episode two of the Jews Do Count podcast, Jon and Raymond examine ‘Jewish values’ and discuss what it means to different people and sections of the community. They are joined by David Mason, a former United …
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In the first episode of the podcast, Raymond and Jon introduce what unites and divides the British Jewish community at this particularly challenging time, highlighting religiosity, peoplehood, Israel, antisemitism, and values as issues that are central to British Jews.jprinstitute123
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What do Jews look like today in terms of their beliefs, practices, values and attitudes? Drawing on the most recent JPR data and their longstanding experience of working in Jewish community life, Dr Jonathan Boyd (Executive Director, Institute for Jewish Policy Research) and Raymond Simonson (CEO, JW3 London) come together to discuss Jewish identit…
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