Anonymous ID: e32fdf May 5, 2026, 8:13 a.m. No.24573595   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://forward.com/culture/film-tv/581193/rael-jewish-israel-netflix-aliens/

Why are the Rael cult's aliens so, uh, Jewish?

The Raëlian cult believes an alien race known as the Elohim may soon land their spaceship in Israel

What if Elohim — a Hebrew term for God — created humanity, just like in Genesis? But what if Elohim actually referred to a race of aliens? What if the land of Israel will, indeed, welcome the revelation with the construction of the Third Temple, but said temple will be a spaceship landing pad and alien embassy? Or what if Yahweh was the father of Jesus, as Christianity teaches, but is, again, not a god so much as a skinny green dude with giant oval eyes who also fathered a prophet who is still living?

These are all teachings of Raël, the aforementioned self-proclaimed prophet, a balding Frenchman with a huge, frizzy corona of wild curls around his gleaming scalp. He’s also, incidentally, really into cloning, which he believes explains Jesus’ resurrection — he was just cloned back to life by the Elohim, and then they took him back into their spaceship.

Collectively, these teachings are known as Raëlianism, and they’re the subject of a new documentary miniseries on Netflix, Raël. It’s named after the prophet, who was born Claude Vorilhon, the son of a Sephardic father, who was in hiding from the Nazis, and a 15-year-old French girl.

Perhaps this background influenced Vorilhon’s later teachings. Raëlisnism is, after all, full of Hebrew terminology, and the movement’s symbol consists of a Star of David with a swastika in the center.