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by Ruth Kettle-Frisby. Rare families have to be nothing short of incredible. 28 February marks this year’s Rare Disease Day. A disease is classified as rare when fewer than 1 in 2,000 people are affected. 70% of rare diseases begin in childhood and 72% are genetic. Today is the one day when hard working families …

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by Nicola Grove, Denise Cullington, Mike Beranek, Ol Rappaport, Priscilla Alderson, Roger Bartlett, Ken Cohen, David Wright. [Since the publication of the Quaker Guidelines on Antisemitism (Challenging antisemitism) by Quakers in Britain and the response to it by Priscilla Alderson, a QSS member, there has been an extensive debate, either in website comments, comments in …

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by Priscilla Alderson.   1. Antisemitism is a very serious, tragic problem and it is good that Quakers address it in a new 24-page Guidelines. The Guide has many valuable ideas for avoiding discrimination and for fulfilling Advices & Queries 17. However, the Guide raises problems. 2. The Guidelines define Zionism in positive terms: ‘the …

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by Rebecca Hardy, Joseph Jones and Elinor Smallman. [QSS Editor: At last year’s Yearly Meeting of Quakers in London there was a protracted debate about Gaza. It ended with British Quakers becoming the first British church to say they believed that Israeli actions in Gaza constituted a “genocide”. During the past year there has been …

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by Ruth Kettle-Frisby. This was my contribution to  ‘What Does Socialism Mean to Me?’ – a discussion evening organised by the Quaker Socialist Society (QSS) on 14th October 2025. What Does Socialism Mean to Me? Truthfully? Is it a ‘love of hopeless causes’; the pipe dream that political centrists would have us believe? The desperate …

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