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Who is a Jew? An Analytical Examination of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom's JFS Case: Why the Matrilineal Test for Jewish Identity is Not in Violation of the Race Relations Act of 1976
Author(s): Ordene, Jason
Date: 2012
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Schools, Jewish Status, Law
A tale of two boys
Author(s): de Blois, Matthijs
Editor(s): van den Brink, Marjolein; Burri, Susanne; Goldschmidt, Jenny
Date: 2015
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Law, Jewish Status, Jewish Schools
'Faith, However Defined': Reassessing JFS and the Judicial Conception of 'Religion'
Author(s): Petty, Aaron R.
Date: 2014
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Schools, Law, Jewish Status
Jewish Approaches to Law (Religious & Secular)
Author(s): Jackson, Bernard S.
Date: 2010
Topics: Jewish Schools, Law, Jewish Status, Main Topic: Other
Abstract: This article begins by looking at Judaism's approach to the concept of law and then moves on to consider the nature and structure of Jewish Law. It then moves on to look at the interaction of Judaism with secular legal systems. This provides a Jewish framework against which the Archbishop of Canterbury's 2008 lecture may be assessed. The article ends by considering some aspects of the interaction between Jewish Law and UK law in particular Divorce (Religious Marriages) Act 2002 and the JFS (Jews Free School) Case.
Who is a Jew? Jewish faith schools and the Race Relations Act 1976
Author(s): Cranmer, Frank
Date: 2010
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Schools, Law, Jewish Status
Abstract: This article considers in detail the decision of the UK Supreme Court on the admissions criteria of what is known as the JFS, formerly the Jews' Free School (E, R (on the application of) v Governing Body of JFS & Anor [2009] UKSC 15). This school was oversubscribed and part of its oversubscription policy was to give precedence to children recognised as Jewish by the Office of the Chief Rabbi (OCR). The OCR only recognised someone as Jewish if it recognised that person's mother as Jewish ('matrilineal descent') or if he or she had undertaken a qualifying course of Orthodox conversion. The Supreme Court held that this was in breach of the Race Relations Act 1976 as being discriminatory. This article considers both the actual decision and its implications not only for Jewish schools but also for faith schools in general.
Who is a Jew? Jewish faith schools and the Race Relations Act 1976
Author(s): Cranmer, Frank
Date: 2010
Topics: Main Topic: Education, Jewish Schools, Law, Jewish Status
European Jews at the Crossroads
Date: 2017
Topics: Jewish Future, Strategic Planning, Globalisation, Israel-Diaspora Relations, Diaspora, Antisemitism, Main Topic: Other, Demography, Jewish Identity, Jewish Community, Jewish Status, Jewish Education, Religious Observance and Practice
Abstract: In February 2016, the 2nd Matanel Think Tank met in Pomezia, Italy to discuss the future of European Jewry. The attendees, professional or laypersons, serve their communities in the areas of research, planning, or rabbinical and educational guidance. Representing more than ten European countries, and diverse cultural backgrounds and religious denominations, they express a variety of points of view regarding the issues on the agenda of the Jewish people. This Matanel Paper makes available to the vast public a summary of the debates and the conclusions.

Contents:

Foreword - Joëlle Aflalo and Gad Boukobza
Program
Introduction - Eliahu Birnbaum
Summary of the Deliberations - Benjamin Myers
Jews in Europe - Ami Bouganim
Think Tank Participants
Jews of the Former Soviet Union: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Author(s): Avineri, Shlomo; Chlenov, Michael; Gitelman, Zvi
Date: 1997
Topics: Jewish Revival, Jewish Future, Policy, Jewish Status, Boundaries, Main Topic: Identity and Community
Abstract: Report based on a conference held in June-July 1996 in St Petersburg on the future of the Jewish community in the FSU.
Lost Jews: The Struggle for Identity Today
Author(s): Klein, Emma
Date: 1995
Topics: Intermarriage, Jewish Status, Marriage, Assimilation, Affiliation and Belonging, Main Topic: Identity and Community, Jewish Identity
Abstract: Against a background of continuing erosion of Jewish numbers, the book investigates the many facets of Jewish identity by throwing the spotlight on people of part-Jewish descent, on born Jews on the fringes of Jewish life and those who have sought alternative affiliations. Emma Klein also calls for a response from religious and lay leaders to parochial communal attitudes and the anomaly of the definition of Jewish status in Jewish law which may be seen to contribute to the erosion.