How the Singapore Summit Could Affect North Korea’s Relationship with Iran
The two will try to move nuclear cooperation underground.
July 10, 2018
Remembering the Great Jewish Lutheran Sociologist of Religion
On Peter Berger and the Jews.
Born to Jewish parents in Vienna in 1929, the late Peter Berger was converted to Christianity along with his parents in 1938—just before his family fled Europe for Mandatory Palestine. After World War II and his formative years in Haifa, he then came with his family to America, where he went on to become one of the most important sociological theorists of secularization, eventually reconsidering and reevaluating his own theories when religion failed to wither away as sociologists had predicted. Abraham Socher, who came to know Berger toward the end of his life, reflects on the man and his work:
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Poland, the Holocaust, and the Fight for Historical Truth
Mimicking the totalitarian habit of rewriting the past.
Overturning “Roe vs. Wade” Doesn’t Threaten Jews’ Religious Freedom
Perverting the meaning of religious liberty.
Remembering the Great Jewish Lutheran Sociologist of Religion
On Peter Berger and the Jews.
How Israeli Television Conquered the World
From In Treatment to Fauda.