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Fighting for Justice for the Dead—and the Living

Sapiens

Pure objectivity is a fallacy: Lived experience, cultural contexts, and the particularities of each case all impact and inform the work of forensic scientists. Cultural anthropologists , archaeologists , and biological anthropologists have included these actions in their scholarship for decades.

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OPINION: Betsy DeVos’ slippery slope of religion, ethnicity and race

The Hechinger Report

Responses usually include: a religion, a race, an ethnicity, a culture and a country. Others separate out Israel as a legal issue or a human rights issue. I regularly offer a course at my university called Teaching the Holocaust: History and Memory. I begin this class by asking my students how they would define Judaism.