In the decades before the Holocaust, the belief in the Messiah was the subject of considerable debate within the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe. Many young Jews rejected the Orthodoxy of their ...

Scholars debate the relationship between catastrophe, Jewish mysticism, and messianic fervor. The well-known scholar of mysticism Gershom Scholem linked mysticism with messianism when he posited a ...

At least 500,000 Israelis live in territories won in the 1967 Six-Day War, and possibly a great deal more than that. They reside everywhere from cities to small towns to tiny hilltop outposts, and ...

“Messianism is not a dirty word,” said Maj. Gen. David Zini in his farewell address to the IDF, ahead of his appointment as head of the Shin Bet security agency. “We are all messianic,” he added, ...

In his farewell speech, Major General David Zini declared, “We are all messianic.” But messianism is not a symbol of noble values—quite the opposite. It reflects a dangerous conflation of state values ...

The word “messianist” is often used in Israeli politics as a slur. But far from weakening its targets, it taps into the deepest strands of Jewish continuity, the human tendency to reclaim insults, and ...

Now that we have located the possible origin of the messianic idea in Zoroastrianism, it is only proper to turn to the religious tradition that actually formulated the concept as Jesus and His ...

So let’s try this again. The other day I wrote about a news report that ran in The Los Angeles Times that used a very interesting and, in the context of Israel and the Middle East, very loaded term.

It's both crazy and dangerous. Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad believes and acts on the expectation that the reappearance of the Hidden Imam is imminent, and that U.S. efforts in the Middle East ...