In the minds of many, this organization has taken over the role of savior. Messiah in Brooklyn, New York In Israel, street signs, billboards and neon signs have appeared with the following slogan: “B

In the minds of many, this organization has taken over the role of savior. Messiah in Brooklyn, New York In Israel, street signs, billboards and neon signs have appeared with the following slogan: “Be Prepared for the Coming of the Messiah.” The $400,000 campaign is Started by Ritualists, an ultra-Orthodox sect of Hasidic Jews. Many of the sect's 250,000 members believe that their chief rabbi, Menachem Mendel Schnelson of Brooklyn, New York, is the Messiah. Schnelson argued that the Messiah would come in the 20th century. According to "Newsweek", Jewish ritual leaders insist that the 90-year-old rabbi will never die before the coming of the Messiah. For many centuries this sect has maintained that in every generation there will be at least one person who is qualified to be the Messiah. In the eyes of Schnelson's followers, he was the qualified person, and Schnelson had not designated any successor. Despite this, "Newsweek" believes that most Jews do not recognize Schnelson as the Messiah. According to "News Daily", the 96-year-old Rabbi Eliezer Shah, who opposed him, even called him a "false messiah."