The Secretary of State for the newly-formed Department of Community and Local Government addressed 200 guests at the most successful Reform Movement Annual Dinner to date at the Inner Temple Hall yesterday.
If you had walked through a Jewish residential district in the pre- or early post-war years, you would not have seen a Kippah. You might have bumped into a United Synagogue minister wearing a dog collar but kippot in the street were a thing of the future.
It is fascinating what British Jewry did to fit in to British society. Our motives were complex. Whether we got ‘it' right or not is a matter for debate. We certainly have a wealth of experience.
