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 ...

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 ...

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A phenomenon cuts across nearly all cultures and eras: time and again, people revere a messiah — an individual seen as a bringer of salvation and a divinely sent redeemer. The messianic role can be ...

(JTA) — On June 10, 2002, Charles Krauthammer delivered the Distinguished Rennert Lecture upon receiving the Guardian of Zion Award from Bar-Ilan University’s Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem ...

I am back from the Night of Ideas and Philosophy, an all-night marathon of debates organised by the French Institute and various New York-based cultural institutions. The event took place at the ...

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 ...

As the pandemic drags on with no end in sight, people around the world are increasingly pinning their hopes on the idea that a vaccine will spell the end of this annus horribilis and avert the horrors ...