jpr - Jews in the UK today - Key findings from the JPR National

At the same time, the UK is home to the fifth largest Jewish population in the world, and the capital city, London, houses the fourteenth largest urban Jewish population globally, second only to Paris in terms of cities outside of Israel and the US. [...] And without wishing to overstate the importance of the report, we also have an eye on history: in the future, we hope that these findings will offer historians of Jews in the UK a valuable and important account of Jewish life and identity in the early part of the twenty-first century; a reference point to understand who British Jews were at this point in time. [...] The support of other major foundations and organisations – the David and Ruth Lewis Charitable Trust, the Bloom Foundation, the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust, the Haskel Foundation, the Kirsh Foundation, the Davis Foundation, the Jewish Leadership Council, the Morris Leigh Foundation, the Maurice Hatter Foundation, the Exilarch Foundation, the Humanitarian Trust, the Sobell Foundation and Eliza. [...] There is more scepticism when it comes to the origins of the Torah, with just 18% of Jews in the UK believing it is the word of God (i.e. almost half the proportion that believes in God), and close to half (47%) believing the Torah was written by human beings.2 Figure 1. [...] Supporters of the UK Conservative Party are far more likely to believe in God and the divine origins of the Torah than supporters of either the British Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats or the Green Party (Figure 4).