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K. publishes this week the second part of David Haziza’s inquiry on ritual slaughter in Europe (see here the first part of this article). He grapples with how this traditional…

The weather is warming, and K., in line with the season, is addressing some hot topics this week. Topics on which intellectuals and politicians often cross swords: post-colonial studies and…

  Does the ceasefire coming into effect after two weeks of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians seem probable to hold? The use of force on both sides was substantial,…

It is difficult to know whether the cycle of Israeli-Palestinian violence that began this week is a repetition of those that preceded it, or whether its features make it unique…

In this edition of K., historian Diana Pinto sketches out a panorama of the European Jewish situation today. The author of Israel Has Moved, she is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and as a consultant for the Council of Europe has conducted research into the Jewish experience on the Continent after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Pinto’s reflections sometimes echo the words of Tobia Zevi, interviewed in a prior >>>

We had planned to run our interview with former French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve – conducted just before the court’s decision in the Halimi Affair – in a previous issue….

Protests were held on last Sunday in France – but also in the United States and Israel – in memory of Sarah Halimi. These assemblies were sometimes dubbed “demonstrations of…

Among the articles in this week’s issue of K., most of them long in the works, there is one written right before press time in response to breaking news. Despite…

Joann Sfar states in a long interview he gave K. for our fourth edition that in the incalculable litany of hatreds, “racism, antisemitism, sexism, there is a profusion of phenomena…