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DESCRIPTION:In 2023\, Argentina elected a president who quotes Torah in spe
 eches\, holds study sessions with his personal rabbi — now appointed as 
 Argentina's ambassador to Israel — visits the tomb of the Lubavitcher Re
 bbe\, wears a kippah at public events\, and publicly declares his intentio
 n to convert to Judaism. This session does not ask whether Javier Milei's 
 connection to Jewish tradition is sincere — it argues that sincerity is 
 beside the point. What matters is how Jewish symbols\, messianic narrative
 s\, and sacred texts are being instrumentalized to legitimize a specific p
 olitical project\, and what that means for Jewish communities\, democratic
  institutions\, and the public image of Judaism itself.\nDrawing on the co
 llective volume Las fuerzas del cielo: Argentina\, Milei y los judíos (20
 24) and the presenter's own chapter in it\, this lecture examines the dang
 ers of messianic political grammar\, the distortion of Jewish textual trad
 ition in the service of far-right libertarianism\, and a global pattern in
  which the far right increasingly claims Jewish and Israeli symbols — re
 gardless of its historical relationship with antisemitism. The session inc
 ludes original Spanish-language sources with translation and commentary\, 
 and closes with open discussion.
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LOCATION:(3OG) Bibliothek
SUMMARY:When the President Cites the Torah: Messianism\, Instrumentalizatio
 n of Judaism\, and Democratic Erosion in Argentina - Uriel Aiskovich
URL:https://programm.limmud.de/limmud-2026/talk/ZSVFQA/
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