Jonathan Boyd

Antisemitism survey launches

Like many Jews, I’ve watched in horror at the news of antisemitic murders in Paris, Toulouse, Brussels and Copenhagen over the past decade or so.

Remarkable consequences of growing self-confidence

It's the ordinary which makes Israel extraordinary, writes Jonathan Boyd

Seder nights represent Judaism in microcosm

Empirically, Seder seems to be the big one; the occasion when all the sociological stars seem to align; the Jewish year’s, ahem, “crunch” moment, writes Jonathan Boyd.

Jews know what antisemitism looks like

Do we spend too much on bnei mitzvot?

Being a Jew can be an expensive business, as Jonathan Boyd explains...

Start planning for the baby boomers' old age

There are more 70-74 year-old British Jews than one might typically expect - and they have been very important to British Jewry

How to meet the multicultural challenge

There is a population in Britain that holds abnormally high levels of antisemitic sentiment, that already vastly outnumbers us, and is growing rapidly, writes Jonathan Boyd. How should we address this?

Another centenary, and we still need to learn

Our history matters to us - it's time to make it a central part of Jewish life, writes Jonathan Boyd

To see the good, we need to know one another

There is a profound irony in the fact that we are closing ourselves off to others at exactly the same time as anxieties about antisemitism are rising, writes Jonathan Boyd

Our report measures antisemitism seriously and objectively

Antisemitism should be measured and analysed seriously — by professionals, with objectivity, precision and circumspection. And that's precisely what we have tried to do

Beware of fishy survey methods

Researching Jews, like researching any small, geographically skewed, hard-to-reach group, is an incredibly difficult thing to do, writes Jonathan Boyd

We must ask these three questions

The potential for Jews to be seen as stereotypes is only likely to grow, with all the perils that entails