Will תְּחִיַּת הַמֵּתִים occur for the benefit of the Dead, or the benefit of the Living?

It is NOT about the affliction, it is about the hope for the messianic redemption in the near future. This is Abarbanel speaking to the battered Sephardim in 1496!

Can "Christian Zionism" flourish in the aftermath of the Cold War? Or is it a phenomenon confined to older Americans?

Trump joked about the Pearl Harbor Attack of 1941. Actually, this resulted in Hitler stupidly declaring war on the USA (thus sealing his own doom) , PLUS providing the Americans with an insight into his thinking, thanks to the blabbermouth Japanese Ambassador in Berlin Baron Oshima

Man-made idols do not offer moral criticism!

Looks? Bucks? Yichus? Higher salary? Higher job position? Class? Equal Partner in the Marriage?

For the first year after the original Passover, there were basically no korbanos (with a few exceptions) in Judaism

Israel agreed not to "out" ex-Nazis in the West German Government. A grateful Germany bankrolled Israel's secret nuclear project. An previously unknown detail of the relationship between Ben Gurion and Konrad Adenauer