Towards a Non-Statist British-Jewish Denomination

I’m back to this. A topic which I previously and mischievously claimed was of interest only to about seven people, which turned out to interest quite a few more. A topic that is utterly specific to the British Jewish community. I refer of course to the proposed merger of Liberal and Reform Judaism to form a new ‘Progressive Judaism’ body, which is due to be voted on by synagogues in May. Below I try to transcend managerial debates and the binary of acceptance/rejection of the proposal, and to look at underlying questions of how Judaism relates to the state.