Berkley Center

The tale of government restrictions on religious freedom in the post-Soviet space makes for depressing reading as the pace of imposing tighter controls on various minority religious communities continues largely unabated. The case of Russia perhaps prompts the greatest concern.

On the Berkley Forum, Rabbi David Saperstein reflects on the history of anti-Semitism in the United States in the wake of the violent neo-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville.

Paul Gutacker discusses his research as a fellow for the Religious Freedom Research Project on the contribution of eighteenth-century accounts of the history of Christianity to revolutionary era debates over religious disestablishment, a previously unexplored source for religious freedom in America.