Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Messianic Jews, who follow Jewish law but believe that Jesus is the Messiah. The major denominations of Judaism reject Messianic Judaism as a form of Judaism.
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Culture Smoke-filled skies evoke the Christian apocalypse — but what does Judaism say about the End Times?
New York was engulfed by thick, yellow smog from wildfires this week, causing a lot of discussion of doomsday
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Culture Why some Christians use matzo for Communion — yes, really
One church-supply website even offered 'Streit's Communion Bread'
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News For this Jewish teen at a Christian school, a Messianic Jewish speaker crossed a line
A Messianic Jew's lecture on Passover raises questions about how Christian schools treat Jewish students
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News A Michigan politician announced her baptism in Messianic Judaism. The rabbi of her synagogue says there’s no such thing.
‘Her beliefs are personal, and she's not going to be bullied into a box or forced to explain herself to a bunch of intolerant, politically motivated hacks,’ Lena Epstein’s political adviser said
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Fast Forward Michigan GOP candidate who was raised Jewish now says she’s a Messianic Jew
Lena Epstein, who is running for chair of the state GOP, said in a video that she has been 'baptized' and is now a 'Jewish Messianic believer of Christ'
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Culture How Doug Mastriano is embracing Messianic Judaism to deflect accusations of antisemitism
Blowing shofars at rallies and including blessings from Messianic rabbis, Christians are trying to define what it means to be a Jew
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News Exclusive: Trump impeachment lawyer Jay Sekulow says ‘I’ve never felt not Jewish’
Jay Sekulow, the Bar Mitzvah boy who converted to Christianity, became one of the nation’s leading evangelical legal advocates and is now co-leading President Trump’s impeachment-defense team, said in an exclusive interview that he has no idea how he was selected for the role other than by “God’s hand.” Sekulow, who along with the White…
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Fast Forward An Anti-Semite Tried To Bomb A ‘Messianic Synagogue’
After a Las Vegas security guard was arrested last week and charged with planning to bomb an unnamed local synagogue, many in the local Jewish community wondered if they could have been targeted. The answer, it turns out, is a bit more complicated. The synagogue Conor Climo allegedly planned to attack was Lev HaShem Messianic…
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News No Jews allowed: White supremacists are building a segregated community in Arkansas, but is it legal?
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Opinion Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go
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News Zohran Mamdani has represented Astoria’s Jews for 4 years. What do they think of him?
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News What a Mayor Mamdani would mean for New York Jews
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Fast Forward Australia cancels Kanye West’s visa over controversial ‘Heil Hitler’ song: ‘We don’t need that in Australia’
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