The Israel-Palestinian Conflict Needs a Political, Not a Legal, Solution
Make peace valuable to Palestinians.
September 14, 2017
The Jewish Lutheran Who Made Sociologists Rethink Religion
Remembering Peter Berger.
The sociologist and public intellectual Peter Berger, who died in June at the age of eighty-eight, left a lasting impact on many areas within his field of study, but perhaps religion was what interested him most. At a time when most social scientists saw modernity as bringing inexorable secularization along with it, he was among the first to realize that religion wouldn’t simply wither away. James Nuechterlein reflects on Berger’s upbringing, his intellectual development, and his ideas:
September 14, 2017
Samantha Power Exploits the Memory of Elie Wiesel
Never forgetting and never learning.
Why Netanyahu’s Trip to Latin America Matters
Rekindling an old friendship.
The Jewish Lutheran Who Made Sociologists Rethink Religion
Remembering Peter Berger.
Egalitarianism, Halakhah, and the Jewish Family
Debates over counting women in a minyan are about more than fairness.