Messianic Jews

Fake rabbi plants billboards across New York City advertising Christian proselytizing website

The jew.com website is ostensibly an educational resource about Hebrew scriptures. But after a short scroll, it becomes clear that the website is aimed at converting Jews to belief in Jesus.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
A billboard advertising the site jews.com.
People attend a Holy Mass for the canonisation of Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who will become the first millennial to be made a Catholic saint, and Pier Giorgio Frassati, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, September 7, 2025

Jewish woman elected president of Catholic Biblical Association of America - interview

She is also the first Jewish scholar to teach the New Testament at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 2019.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Jewish service members hold a torah scroll while wearing tefillin at the Aleph Institute's Military Symposium in February. 2026

Jewish groups ask Pentagon to stop Messianic chaplains from wearing Jewish insignia

Rabbi Laurence Bazer, who endorses Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox rabbis and cantors as military chaplains, said Jewish groups are working together on the issue

|ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich, chairman of the Religious Zionist Party, addresses his party’s faction in the Knesset last week. He is dismissed as ‘messianic’ not just for his policies, but also a worldview he represents, says the writer.

'Messianic’: A slur, or Jewish birthright? - opinion

Throwing the word “messianic” around reduces complex ideas to caricature and avoids the real questions those ideas raise.

|ByDEBORAH DANINO

Following in Jesus’ footsteps to serve in the IDF

Two Messianic Jews, including one currently in Givati, tell the ‘Post’ why they moved to Israel to serve in the IDF

JUNE 13, 2018ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Simon Zauber and his brothers at his swearing-in ceremony

16 April 2018: Messianic Jews

Our readers weigh in.

APRIL 16, 2018ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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February 23, 2018: Why Publish?

Our readers weigh in.

FEBRUARY 22, 2018ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Evangelicals and Israel

Perhaps the government of Israel should start viewing Messianic Jews as diplomatic assets rather than a religious threat.

FEBRUARY 17, 2018ByITZHAK RABIHIYA
Evangelical Christians from around the world wave their national flags along with Israeli flags as they march in a parade in Jerusalem to mark the Feast of Tabernacles

December 24, 2017: Additional 'Post' readers weigh in on Messianic Jews

Our readers weigh in.

DECEMBER 23, 2017ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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We Reject the Messianic Brand of Christianity

DECEMBER 21, 2017ByARI MONTANARI
The Jerusalem Post

December 18, 2017: How we can transform Israel

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

DECEMBER 17, 2017ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Will Israel ever accept Messianic Jews?

Indeed, Messianic Jews are largely shunned by mainstream Jewish communities around the world, and are commonly seen as proselytizers.

DECEMBER 16, 2017ByTAMARA ZIEVE
Supreme Court of Israel

November 23, 2017: Turning away some Jews

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say.

NOVEMBER 22, 2017ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

One Israeli man's mission to bring 'gospel back to Jewish people'

A Jew? A Christian? A "Jew for Jesus"? Jacob Damkani isn't as focused on his own mission as he is on challenging replacement theology.

NOVEMBER 21, 2017ByLESLIE CRISS / NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI DAILY JOURNAL - TUPELO
Jacob Damkani