In England, a Resurgent Interest in Jewish Education among the Non-Orthodox

According to a famous quip, Britain and America are “divided by a common language.” The same appears to be true, more specifically, for British and American Jewry. For Americans, the word heder retains its European meaning of an all-boys religious elementary school where little attention is paid to secular subjects. For Jews in Britain, it is what their coreligionists in the U.S. call a Talmud Torah or a Hebrew school—an institution meant to supplement secular education. Simon Rocker explains the resurgence British heders are experiencing: