{"id":135,"date":"2010-05-24T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/founder-of-jews-for-jesus-dies.html"},"modified":"2010-05-24T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:45:00","slug":"founder-of-jews-for-jesus-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/founder-of-jews-for-jesus-dies.html","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Controversial &#8216;Jews for Jesus&#8217; Movement Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jews for Jesus movement,&nbsp;a controversial&nbsp;Christian group&nbsp;focused on converting Jews &#8212; highly offensive to some, understandably &#8212;&nbsp;has confused and fascinated me for years.&nbsp;Doesn&#8217;t being a Jew who believes in Jesus basically make you&nbsp;a Christian? (Weren&#8217;t all the disciples &#8220;Jews for Jesus,&#8221; by definition?) If I&#8217;m a baptized Christian, but find Shabbat traditions, Passover Seders and other Jewish practices spiritually meaningful, does that make me a messianic Jew, a liberal Christian, or just confused? None of the above?<\/p>\n<p>Questions to ponder, while reading the obituaries for Jews for Jesus founder Moishe Rosen, a Jew-turned-Baptist who died last week at age 78. Some of the coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704546304575260272332539534.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">Founder of Jews for Jesus Embraced Controversy <\/a>(Wall Street Journal)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/22\/us\/22rosen.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Moishe Rosen Dies at 78; Founder of Jews for Jesus <\/a>(New York Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/05\/21\/2739266\/jews-for-jesus-founder-dies\">Jews for Jesus founder dies <\/a>(JTA)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2010\/mayweb-only\/30-52.0.html\">Remembering Moishe Rosen<\/a>: Jews for Jesus founder left his mark on evangelism&nbsp;(Christianity Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jews for Jesus movement,&nbsp;a controversial&nbsp;Christian group&nbsp;focused on converting Jews &#8212; highly offensive to some, understandably &#8212;&nbsp;has confused and fascinated me for years.&nbsp;Doesn&#8217;t being a Jew who believes in Jesus basically make you&nbsp;a Christian? (Weren&#8217;t all the disciples &#8220;Jews for Jesus,&#8221; by definition?) If I&#8217;m a baptized Christian, but find Shabbat traditions, Passover Seders and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Founder of Controversial &#039;Jews for Jesus&#039; Movement Dies - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/founder-of-jews-for-jesus-dies.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Founder of Controversial &#039;Jews for Jesus&#039; Movement Dies - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Jews for Jesus movement,&nbsp;a controversial&nbsp;Christian group&nbsp;focused on converting Jews &#8212; highly offensive to some, understandably &#8212;&nbsp;has confused and fascinated me for years.&nbsp;Doesn&#8217;t being a Jew who believes in Jesus basically make you&nbsp;a Christian? 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