Anyone involved in the discourse on Israel and Zionism is aware of the fact that the words “as a Jew” always presage something distinctly monstrous. “As a Jew” is inevitably followed by ferocious ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Dynamic Repetition explores how ideals of repetition, return, and the cyclical occasioned a new messianic impulse across an important swath of late nineteenth and early twentieth century German Jewish ...

This book traces the appearance of the messianic idea from the prophet Isaiah to the Bar Kochbah revolt. It demonstrates the dramatic, many-sided and fascinating controversy about the messianic idea.

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IDF paratroopers explore the Temple Mount on June 7, 1967, during the Six Day War. The army radio crackled, “The Temple Mount is in our hands! I repeat, the Temple Mount is in our hands! All forces, ...