Month: January 2023

The reported situation At 9.30 AM on the 29 November 2021, the latest results of the 2021 Census of England and Wales describing the religious and ethnic composition of the nation made it into the public domain. The Office for National Statistics (the ONS) told that in 2021 the Census of England and Wales registered 271,327 people who self-identified as Jews in response to the religion question. To be precise, these are people who ticked the ‘Jewish’ box in response to a question ‘What is your religion?’. A decade earlier, in 2011, there were 265,073 such people. That means an addition of 6,000, or growth of 2.4%, in a decade. For comparison, the population of England and Wales as a whole grew by about 6.3% during this period. Just how credible is it? This picture is rather incredible. Anyone with sound knowledge of the recent demographic realities of British Jews would say so.  Konstantin Stanislavsky, a notable Russian theatre producer and actors’ trainer,...