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June 25, 2018

Charles Krauthammer’s Reflections on Israel, Zionism, Judaism, and God

“The only theology that I know is not true . . . is atheism.”

Last week, Charles Krauthammer, one of America’s most incisive and influential political analysts and a profound thinker on issues pertaining to Judaism and the Jewish people, passed away at the age of sixty-eight. In 2016, Krauthammer engaged in an extended conversation with Roger Hertog based on his 1998 essay “At Last, Zion,” on the future of the Jewish people in American and Israel. At the conversation’s end, Krauthammer elaborates on a remark he once made that “I don’t believe in God, but I fear Him greatly.” (Video is available here.)

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June 25, 2018

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  3. Charles Krauthammer’s Reflections on Israel, Zionism, Judaism, and God

    “The only theology that I know is not true . . . is atheism.”

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