Old–New Moralities: British Jewish Youth, the Sexual Revolution, and the Jewish Chronicle

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Old–New Moralities:British Jewish Youth, the Sexual Revolution, and the Jewish Chronicle Tom Plant (bio) The Jewish Chronicle, founded in 1841, is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. As its historian, David Cesarani, has noted, the paper has consistently provided "a 'public sphere' in which the Jews of Britain could interact, define and share a set of common concerns," and in so doing has profoundly shaped British Jewish identity.1 In 1967 the paper's youth column published an article on the acceptability of mini-skirts in the synagogue in which the author, Rima Roland, criticized "the way they are worn—or rather flaunted—around the gallery" as "little different from going in a bathing-suit or underwear, particularly if a mini-sweater is worn on top": Seldom does one see a mini-skirted girl take a prayer book in her hand, and yet it is invariably these girls who walk slowly and deliberately down the steps to, of all places, the front row of the gallery. Do

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