Covering the Rebbe’s funeral for the New Republic, Nadler criticized the sect for its messianism, most importantly for the conviction of many Chabad members that the Rebbe was himself the ...

Key writings on Sabbatianism and its legacy and afterlife in Jewish culture, memory, and religion The pronouncements of Sabbatai Tsevi (1626–76) gave rise to Sabbatianism, a key messianic movement in ...

Soon Rosenberg began writing critically about messianism among Chabad Hasidim, who were convinced that the rebbe, who died in 1994, was still alive. In 2004, he was among the first to report ...

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, spiritual leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, made an imprint on her at a young age, especially for his efforts to put Jewish women at the forefront of the organization ...

See English publication in Lawrence J. Kaplan and David Shatz (eds.), Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Jewish Spirituality (New York, 1995). Under the influence of modern Zionism, many Haredim adopted ...