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Nov 6, 2018, 12:25 PM

Challenging injustice after the Etz Chayim attack

On 27 October I read the news that a synagogue, the holiest of shelters, had been ambushed in Pittsburgh. All Jews must die, the White nationalist had yelled before taking eleven lives. Each passing detail made the massacre more...

Aug 27, 2015, 8:45 PM

The 2015 Muslim Jewish Conference: Rooted in community, striding towards professionalism

Every year I dread what might happen at the Muslim Jewish Conference because it always seems to occur in the midst of tragedy; if it wasn’t the Israel-Gaza crisis in 2014, it was the siege of the Parisian kosher...

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Ben Kasstan is a social and medical anthropologist based at the University of Sussex (UK).