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

Michigan GOP candidate who was raised Jewish now says she’s a Messianic Jew

Lena Epstein, who was raised Jewish, made the comments at a candidate forum at a Baptist church in Holland, Michigan.

FEBRUARY 9, 2023ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
A GROWING series of violent attacks on Jewish facilities began at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, in October 2018.

Houston woman breaks into synagogue, terrorizes preschool children

"The damage is immeasurable," an Assistant Harris County District Attorney said.

JANUARY 22, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Houston City Hall

School board that banned Anne Frank book invited ‘rabbi’ charged with sexual assault

Mark Aaron Griffin, a Messianic Jewish “rabbi,” is currently awaiting trial on four counts of sexual assault.

DECEMBER 14, 2022ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Mark Aaron Griffin, a Messianic "rabbi" awaiting trial on four counts of sexual assault, leads the opening prayer at Keller Independent School District's board meeting, Dec. 12, 2022.

Missionary group targets Ukrainian refugees, to ‘baptize 15’ by Passover

"Please pray that our staff in Israel will share the gospel with" these new immigrants.

MARCH 8, 2022ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN, AARON REICH
New immigrants arrive from Ukraine in February 2022

How many Israeli Jews believe in Jesus? New book sheds light

“Jesus-Believing Israelis: Exploring Messianic Fellowships" claims there are 280 Messianic fellowships in the Jewish state.

FEBRUARY 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A picture of a menorah intended to explain the object's symbolism was actually a Messianic image in which the menorah's branches were described as symbolizing the "cross" and "resurrection."

Yiddish copies of Christian Bible distributed in Rockland County, NY

Rockland County has a very dense ultra-Orthodox Jewish population, especially in places like Monsey and Spring Valley. The Yiddish copies of the New Testament are linked to missionary organizations.

JANUARY 4, 2022ByAARON REICH
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Alleged Christian missionaries' Messianic shul targets Chicago Jews - report

The synagogue has a Facebook page, Twitter account and website and has given itself the tagline "Making Disciples of Yeshua and Torah in Chicago."

DECEMBER 17, 2021ByAARON REICH
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Boston suburb apologizes for using Christian menorah in holiday display

The image is widely available online as an illustration of Messianic interpretations of the menorah.

DECEMBER 7, 2021ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
A picture of a menorah intended to explain the object's symbolism was actually a Messianic image in which the menorah's branches were described as symbolizing the "cross" and "resurrection."

At this Tel Aviv cafe, baristas will serve you espresso and Jesus

A Messianic Jewish organization based in Tel Aviv whose name means “small boat,” HaOgen is an “outreach coffee shop” that’s “staffed with evangelists ready to share the good news with every guest.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021ByABBY SEITZ/JTA
Tel Aviv skyline

New allegations about another covert Messianic Christian missionary

Timothy Buckles has allegedly sought to infiltrate Orthodox synagogues in the US, and posed as Jewish in Jerusalem where he lives and works

MAY 27, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
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