ABSTRACT
The figure of children attending Jewish Day Schools gives a reliable indication of their educational programme, but the number of persons attached to a religious organization gives no indication of anything beyond the bare fact of their being affiliated. The question of religious trends in Anglo-Jewry cannot be separated from the general picture of religious observance to be found in the non-Jewish world. The attitudes of the outside world have always had an effect on the views of the Jewish community and nowadays the influence is more direct. In the non-Jewish world, standards of religious observance and of religious interest are at low ebb. In a community that shows every sign of disintegration and drift, the one institution which still has the power to attract loyalty and impose some degree of unity is the Chief Rabbinate.
