Following New Regulations, Jewish Schools in Britain Will Teach Islam, Too

The British government recently required that “faith schools”—religious schools receiving government funding—add a second faith to their curricula, at the expense of time allotted to a school’s primary religious instruction. After initially protesting the law, the UK’s chief rabbi has decided that, in Jewish schools, the second religion should be Islam. In a show of apparent reciprocity, the Association of Muslim Schools announced that it would encourage its members to choose Judaism as their second religion. Sara Lehmann suspects that, contrary to the law’s expressed purpose, little tolerance will follow: