3 days ago - Boteach authored Kosher Jesus in 2012, in which he depicts Jesus as "a Jewish patriot murdered by Rome for his struggle on behalf of his people." Opinions of the merits of the book differ, with Israeli-American Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, President of the International Fellowship of Christians ...

January 14, 2026 - He lived at a time when the Roman Empire ruled what is now Israel and sectarianism was rife, with major tensions among Jews not only over how much to cooperate with the Romans but also how to interpret Torah. It was also, for some, a restive time when displeasure with Roman policies, as well as with the Temple high priests, bred hopes for a messianic redeemer who would throw off the foreign occupiers and restore Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. Illustration depicting Jesus fishing in the Sea of Galilee with some of his followers.

December 18, 2023 - Joshua: It’s fairly widely accepted within the Jewish community that Jesus is not the Messiah on the basis that if a Jewish person were to accept that belief, they would just convert to Christianity, right?

January 19, 2026 - Some believe he was Jewish and others disagree due to the limited historical accuracy and knowledge. Additionally, many Jews regard Jesus as a teacher or prophet but not as the Messiah.

April 9, 2017 - Jewish opinions on this range from the most generous: “He was a kind teacher who was misguided in his teachings, but they brought the world to an awareness of One God, more or less, and for that we can be grateful” to “He was a horrible ...

Jesus came to Israel as the Good Shepherd, the one sent to gather the lost sheep of Israel (Ezek. 34; Mt. 9:36; 10:6; 15:24; Jn. 10:1–18). When Jesus considered Jerusalem’s destruction, He did not rejoice, but wept (Lk. 19:41–44). Despite His rejection and the resultant judgment, Jesus is ready even now to come as Israel’s Messiah and restore them according to God’s promises (Zech. 12—14). To portray Jesus as non-Jewish or anti-Judaism paints a false picture of “the King of the Jews.”

February 26, 2026 - I would be hard-pressed to tell you how many times in the course of my “day job” a non-Jewish reader has written me asking, “What do Jews think of Jesus?” Sometimes they just can’t accept the honest answer: Generally speaking, we don’t think about him at all. Full stop. The reason they can’t accept this is because Jesus is the central figure in their religion.

Throughout the ages, the question of who Y’shua (Jesus) is has encountered a full spectrum of reactions ranging from He is a myth, fable and the New Testament is merely an assemblage of narishkeit (Yiddish for foolishness)... all the way to He is the promised Messiah, God incarnate who died for our sins and rose from the dead. Quite a spectrum, indeed. While Christianity has had and continues to have a major impact on Jews and Judaism, Jesus is not seen as a major figure in Jewish history.

April 30, 2026 - Many Jewish people will explain quite simply that “Jewish people don’t believe in Jesus!” Much of today’s Jewish community headlines “inclusivity” as part of their worldview, but ironically, there is still one stigma that remains.

April 30, 2026 - In his days Galilee was the stronghold of the most enthusiastic Jewish patriotism…In all this Jesus is the most Jewish of Jews…more Jewish even than Hillel.12 · Joseph Klausner Historian and Professor, Hebrew University 1874–1958 · I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If the resurrection of Jesus from the dead on that Easter Sunday were a public event which had been made known…not only to the 530 Jewish witnesses but to the entire population, all Jews would have become followers of Jesus.

Despite all the history of the Church and the misuse of His Name, despite all the bad theology that is based on a Christianity disconnected from the Jewish roots of the faith, Yeshua is a Jewish man born in Bethlehem in the Galilee region of the Land of Israel (Luke 2). He is the Son of David (Matthew 1),and the idea of curses being put upon those who hang on a pole to remove sin from among the people originates in the Torah (Deuteronomy 21:22-23). While religion and theology have separated Jewishness and Yeshua, Yeshua cries out for the people of Israel and the City of Jerusalem to come to Him as His own people (Luke 19:41-42) – which is, in our view, a perfectly Jewish thing to do! I’ve heard Jewish People say, “You can’t be a Jew and believe in Jesus any more than you can be a vegetarian who eats meat.” It’s not that they’re belligerent.

There is no official Jewish view of Jesus but the vast majority of Jews are united in their rejection of the tremendous claim, which is made for Jesus by Christians, that he is the Lord Christ, God Incarnate, the very Son of God the Father.

February 15, 2019 - Jews do not believe that Jesus was divine or the "son of God," or the Messiah prophesied in Jewish scripture. He is seen as a "false messiah," meaning someone who claimed (or whose followers claimed for him) the mantle of the Messiah but who ...

While the Gospels record disputes about Jesus' interpretation of a few of these, the notion of a Christian Jesus, who did not live by Torah or only by its ethical values, does not fit historical reality. There is no official Jewish view of Jesus but in one respect Jews are agreed in their attitude ...

Crucifixion was a Roman form of execution, not a Jewish one. Where does this myth come from? For most of Christian history, Jews were held responsible for the death of Jesus. This is because the New Testament tends to place the blame specifically on the Temple leadership and more generally on Jewish people.

April 3, 2026 - No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.5 · The same documents which tell us that Yeshua lived also declare that he died and rose again. While no serious scholar doubts that Yeshua walked among us, skeptics (both Jewish and Gentile) frequently attempt to extract the real history from these documents and dispose of what they believe to be a myth.

Answer (1 of 76): I think that most Jewish people that I know see Jesus as a nice Jewish boy who, in a sense, was similar to the Reform Jews of today. Jesus challenged the rabbis of his day, saying that they were too concerned about making sure every last detail of traditional Jewish laws, ritua...

Before modern times, the historical Jesus and the theological Christ were generally deemed to be inseparable, and since Jews were bound to reject the one, they naturally tended to think negatively, or not at all, about both. That some leading Jewish thinkers of the Middle Ages, like Maimonides, nevertheless referred positively to Jesus, as preparing the way for the messianic age, is due, not to their appraisal of his person but to their perception that Christianity, in spite of its un-Hebraic aspects, has, as a matter of historical fact, purveyed many of the moral values of Hebraism to a previously pagan civilisation.