Once long ago (I think in the 1970s) there was a flim about being Jewish in American.it was called Goodbye Columbus.The main plot line was between two young lovers he was an outsider she was a member of the American upper class of with issues of sex and race in 1970s America. The scenes I remember the most are the ones of the father stuffing his face during a but mitzvah ( or was it a wedding)but the one I most remember is when the Male lead leaves his ex-friend, her father tells him he is lucky and he wished he had done the same.

Today Jewish life in London is dominated by people like this, they believed that only they and their friends can run Jewish institutions. The result is they've been heavily run badly, I remember trying to join a committee of one organization last year and being told the as I haven't gone to school with the chair people I couldn't join. The result is a rapidly we have a Jewish secenes in this country that is absolutely awful, apart from smingle and a few other get togather we seem to have a very badly run very corrupt community.

This is also having a number of the side effects, for example Goodbye Columbus is now a term used by lawayers to describe the higher than average divorce rates among Jewish couples in Britain. An acquaintance told me that their 20% higher than the average divorce rates seen across Britain in any area or among any other ethnic group. It's generally believed that the problem is rooted in the youth movements and the actual structure of the society. The result is people getting married to early after they had children. Just the other week I was at a Jewish do and I found out half the people in the room with mehad divorced parents most of their parents were doctors, lawayers or accountants. The other factor that stood out was mostly got married between the ages of 18 to 26 by the time the children were forced by their parents had split up or the marriage had collapsed effectively.another friend of mine is now a teacher at Manchesters Jewish secondly school has told me that as a growing amount of poverty among the Jewish community in this country. The reasons for this is obvious it seems clearly to me that we have a highly divided community. It's very hard to meet other Jewish people which can be seen in our higher than average single numbers. The reality is if the society doesn't change what is today's mainstream Jewish community were within 20 years be outnumbered by the ultra-Orthodox (which to a degree is not surepizing) they have much lower divorce rates and are generally happyer). To me the best solution in this corroding mess is to change the way we operate as a community. However I did see change coming soon enough! and sometimes like the male lead its better to leave it.