The seemingly unstoppable rise in the number of Jewish schools is widely regarded as one of the most positive features of British Jewry.
But not everyone agrees. Here is a dissenting opinion from an unusual source – the United Synagogue.
In an article on its website, Helena Cramer of Woodside Park argues why day schools are not always a good thing: “With this continued growth in number of Jewish schools comes the inevitable demise of the shul cheder and I believe there is for some children a knock-on effect of a fall in shul attendance,” she writes.
