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  • History section icon
    The Man Riding a Lion

    A new narrative for the coronation of Sabbatai Zevi

    byDavid Sclar
  • Belief section icon
    Israel’s Two Messiahs

    The Jewish state is currently gripped by a dangerous apocalyptic vision. To save it, we need to return to a more natural and democratic vision of redemption.

    byNadav Berman Shifman
  • (Photoillustration by Tablet Magazine)
    (Photoillustration by Tablet Magazine)
    Arts & Letters section icon
    Was Vladimir Jabotinsky the Zionist Nabokov?

    A look at the fearsome ideologue’s brilliant Odessa family novel, ‘The Five’

    byMarat Grinberg
  • At the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, June 30, 2014 at the Old Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, New York. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rebbe's passing.(Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images)
    At the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, June 30, 2014 at the Old Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, New York. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rebbe's passing.(Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images)
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    Did the Rebbe Identify Himself as the Messiah—and What Do His Hasidim Believe Today?

    Twenty years after his death, the legacy of the Lubavitcher leader—‘the Prince of our generation’—is still a matter of heated debate

    byDavid Berger
  • At the Western Wall.(David Silverman/Getty Images)
    At the Western Wall.(David Silverman/Getty Images)
    Israel & The Middle East section icon
    Imperfect

    As Zionism is under siege and Israelis increasingly see their country as divinely ordained, it’s important to remember that the Jewish state is the result not of a miracle but of historical forces and hard work

    byBenjamin Kerstein
  • Children watch as Spanish graffiti artists work on a large spraypainted portrait of Menachem Mendel Schneerson on the outside of a bomb shelter in the Israeli town of Sderot, April 27, 2010.(Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
    Children watch as Spanish graffiti artists work on a large spraypainted portrait of Menachem Mendel Schneerson on the outside of a bomb shelter in the Israeli town of Sderot, April 27, 2010.(Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images)
    Arts & Letters section icon
    American Messiah

    It’s been 16 years since Menachem Schneerson’s death, but in a sense the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe is with us more than ever

    byAdam Kirsch
  • The Sixth Patriarch Huineng Cutting the Bamboo by Liang Kai(The Sixth Patriarch Huineng Cutting the Bamboo by Liang Kai, via Wikipedia.)
    The Sixth Patriarch Huineng Cutting the Bamboo by Liang Kai(The Sixth Patriarch Huineng Cutting the Bamboo by Liang Kai, via Wikipedia.)
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    The Literatures of the Two Easts

    Are Hasidism and Zen Buddhism kindred movements?

    byJoshua Cohen
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