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But the nearer historical precedent is an opportunistic officer in the mold of Gamal Abdel Nasser—or a religious messianist like Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.

Egypt's Silhouette of Fire Bret Stephens 2011

Only the type of messianists who argue "the Lord will provide" might disagree and Jewish history - witness the Bar Kokhba rebellion -- does not provide much support for that messianist position.

Ira Forman: Right Wing Fantasies Require Made-Up Facts 2010

A self-described messianist who rejected the existence of God while simultaneously describing the Torah as his political guidebook, Ben Gurion saw the Negev as a blank slate for realizing his revolutionary fever dreams.

Max Blumenthal: In Democracy's Wasteland, Israel Razes a Bedouin Village...Again (VIDEO) 2010

A self-described messianist who rejected the existence of God while simultaneously describing the Torah as his political guidebook, Ben Gurion saw the Negev as a blank slate for realizing his revolutionary fever dreams.

Max Blumenthal: In Democracy's Wasteland, Israel Razes a Bedouin Village...Again (VIDEO) 2010

The Jewish Week article carries an extensive description of the messianist atmosphere that currently dominates the synagogue.

New York Court Says Chabad Headquarters May Eject Messianists Howard M. Friedman 2008

Edward Rudofsky, the attorney representing the messianist faction organized as Congregation Lubavitch Inc. said they would appeal the decision.

New York Court Says Chabad Headquarters May Eject Messianists Howard M. Friedman 2008

The conversation about what that something better looks like is one still needing to be had and one which the fiery invective of right versus left, religious versus secular, messianist versus rationalist, impedes to say the very least.

Can you smell the Kumah rising? | Jewschool 2007

Only the type of messianists who argue "the Lord will provide" might disagree and Jewish history - witness the Bar Kokhba rebellion-does not provide much support for that messianist position.

NJDC Blog 2010

One of the best parts of Halkin's biography is his thoughtful review of the historiography and literary analysis of the issue of Zionism as invoked by Halevi (including some lovely pages on the messianist Chief Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Ha-Cohen Kook).

The Jewish Week (BETA) 2010

I'll have to see this teshuva in writing to be sure, but Rabbi Klein's word actually condemn all of Chabad because "to say the Moshiach is dead but is really alive" encompasses almost every Chabadnik I know, messianist or so-called anti-messianist.

FailedMessiah.com 2009