While the book provides an equally glorious and frightening picture of the messianic forces driving geopolitics and global conflict, it’s much more than a treatise on messianism. “Why would anyone ...

Far from being an irrelevancy, Dr. Arnold Slyper has shown convincingly that messianism is highly relevant to the Jewish world today. Messianism could well be considered an abstruse topic that is ...

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 ...

“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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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