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

Study: One-fifth of Jewish millennials believe Jesus is the son of God

The survey, which was published this week, is mostly composed of the standard questions.

NOVEMBER 1, 2017ByJTA
Belarussian Catholics re-enact a moment in the life of Jesus Christ near a Catholic church in Minsk