'Messianic’: A slur, or Jewish birthright? - opinion
Throwing the word “messianic” around reduces complex ideas to caricature and avoids the real questions those ideas raise.
FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich, chairman of the Religious Zionist Party, addresses his party’s faction in the Knesset last week. He is dismissed as ‘messianic’ not just for his policies, but also a worldview he represents, says the writer. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)Updated: 
