Jesus for Jews: If Jesus Is the Messiah at All, Then He Is the Messiah for All (1987, Hardcover)

Inevitably, Christian missionary organizations feel compelled to publish a volume of apostate testimonies. Ruth Rosen's book, compiled for the Jews for Jesus organization, is one more example of such volumes intended to sell Jesus to the Jews. Ms. Rosen's work contains two main sections. The first, "Testimonies," presents the testimonies of apostates, while the second, "Continuations of the Case," attempts to present scriptural support for the act of apostasy.

Ms. Rosen presents an impressive array of personal testimonies of Jewish apostates to support the case for Christianity. Yet, accounts of subjective personal perceptions provide neither evidence nor proof that Jesus is the Messiah. Subjective experience and suggestibility are outside the realm of acceptable evidentiary material.

The testimonies Ms. Rosen presents are written with a verisimilitude of Jewishness. Having renounced the Jewish religio-national communal history and future, these apostates have become pathetic outcasts alienated from the God and people of Israel through their own willful act. They have become apologists for deception, companions in the misfortune that is apostasy. Their rejection of the living community of Israel was through a demonstrative act of disconnection involving the affirmation of beliefs expressly associated with an alien faith. This faith, Christianity, is outside the parameters of the national faith experience of the Jewish people. Acceptance of Christian beliefs belittles the communal integrity of Israel and acquiesces to the eradication of the religio-national community. A Jews' acceptance of Christian dogma demonstrates a metaphysical breakdown. The apostate's outward demeanor belies the true nature of the tragedy. It is a spiritual implosion, a shattering of the inner spiritual self. The vital quality of Jewishness is gone. In its place exist, at best, distant, blurred "historical" memories, shadowy past experiences with no present nor future, no relationship with the people or God of Israel. What is discernible in the missionary-minded apostate is a need to display a pseudo-Jewish facade, a counterfeit Jewishness used to entice others into error.

Moishe Rosen's introduction to this volume (edited by his daughter, Ruth) shows him to be a master of missionary duplicity.

For many fundamentalist Christians, the refusal of "unbelieving Israel" to accept Jesus as Messiah has been at least as disturbing as it has been prophetic. Although this unbelief has been explained by Pauline theology (Romans 11:25), Christians have never been comfortable with the presence of "unbelieving Israel." "Why don't Jews believe in Jesus?" poses Moishe Rosen in stating the Christian problem (p. i). "It seems to them that if anyone ought to believe in Jesus, it should be the Jewish people" (p. i). Their uneasiness reflects the corollary to the Christian problem: Perhaps, the Jews' rejection of Jesus is based on solid evidence which shows something about his claims that Christians are afraid to confront honestly. Fundamentalist Christians act out their resultant anxieties by supporting missionary efforts among the Jews.

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