The sequence of events seems like a nightmare now compared with the Manchester in whose warm friendship my adolescent years were spent. There were Jews aplenty then, and being among the richest Mancunians, they invited good-natured jokes about their privileged position

xComparing it with race and religious killings in South Asia, some might dismiss the October 2 attack in a Manchester synagogue as much ado about nothing. But the loss of three lives can’t be ignored in a country that rightly regards one death as one too many. Moreover, it exposed the cauldron of hate and violence that simmers even below the placid surface of Western sophistication and can erupt in far more lasting discord.

The sequence of events seems like a nightmare now compared with the Manchester in whose warm friends

See Full Page