"As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a
Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene." Albert
Einstein
 

"Jesus is a genuine Jewish personality, all his struggles and works, his
bearing
and feeling, his speech and silence, bear the stamp of a Jewish style, the
mark
of Jewish idealism, of the best that was and is in Judaism. He was a Jew among
Jews." Rabbi Leo Baeck-for many years the religious leader of German Jewry.
 

"It is a peculiar manifestation of our exile-psychology that we permitted, and
even aided in, the deletion of New Testament Messianism, that meaningful
offshoot of our spiritual history. It was in a Jewish land that this spiritual
revolution was kindled; and Jews were those who had spread it all over the
land...we must overcome the superstitious fear which we harbor about the
Messianic movement of Jesus, and we must place the movement where it belongs,
namely, in the spiritual history of Judaism." Prof. Martin Buber, Philosopher
and Professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem
 

"Jesus was a Jew and a Jew he remained till his last breath. His one idea was
to
implant within his nation the idea of the coming of the Messiah and, by
repentance and good works, hasten the 'end'...In all of this, Jesus is the
most
Jewish of Jews...more Jewish than Hillel...From the standpoint of general
humanity, he is, indeed, 'a light to the Gentiles.' " Prof. Joseph Klausner,
Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
 

"I couldn't help writing on Jesus. Since I first met Him, he has held my mind
and heart...I floundered a bit, at first; I was seeking that something for
which
so many of us search-that surety, that faith, that spiritual content in my
living which would bring me peace and through which I might help bring people
to
others. I found it in the Nazarene...Everything He ever said or did has value
for us today, and that is something you can say of no other man, alive or
dead...He became the Light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of
it?" Sholem Asch, Yiddish writer.
 

"Jesus has become the most popular, the most studied, the most influential
figure in the religious history of mankind... No sensible Jew can be
indifferent
to the fact that a Jew should have had such a tremendous part in the religious
education and direction of the human race...Who can compute all that Jesus has
meant to humanity? The love he has inspired, the solace he has given, the good
he has engendered, the hope and joy he has kindled-all that is unequalled in
human history...The Jew cannot help glorying in what Jesus has meant to the
world; nor can he help hoping that Jesus may yet serve as a bond between Jew
and
Christian, once his teaching is better known and the bane of misunderstanding
at
last is removed from his words and his ideal."  Rabbi Hyman Enelow, past
President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
 
 

"Neither Christian protest nor Jewish lamentation can annul the fact that
Jesus
was a Jew, an Hebrew of the Hebrews. Surely it is not wholly unfit that Jesus
be
reclaimed by those who have never unitedly nor organizedly denied him, though
oft denied by his followers; that Jesus should not be so much appropriated by
us
as assigned to the place in Jewish life and Jewish history which is rightfully
his own. Jesus was not only a Jew but he was the Jew, the Jew of the Jews...In
that day when history shall be written in the light of truth, the people of
Israel will be known not as Christ-killers, but as Christ-bearers; not as
God-slayers, but as God-bringers to the world." Rabbi Stephen Wise, Zionist
leader and founder of the Jewish Institute of Religion.
 

"We certainly do not get in the Hebrew Bible any teacher speaking of God as '
Father'...like the Jesus of Matthew. And this habitual and concentrated use
rightly produces upon us an impression...we are moved by it to wish that we
too
could feel that doctrine, even as Jesus teaches that we ought to feel; and
that
we, too, could order our lives in its light and by its strength." C.G.
Montefiore, Reform Jewish Scholar.
 

"Jesus was utterly true to the Torah, as I myself hope to be. I even suspect
that Jesus was even more true to the Torah than I, an Orthodox Jew. I accept
the
resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of
disciples,
but as an historical event...I believe that the Christ event leads to a way of
salvation which God has opened up in order to bring the gentile world into the
community of God's Israel." Dr. Pinchas Lapide, Orthodox scholar
 

"Perhaps, too, in this enlightened age, as his mind expands, and he takes a
comprehensive view of this period of progress, the pupil of Moses may ask
himself, whether all the princes of the house of David have done so much for
the
Jews as that prince who was crucified on Calvary." Benjamin Disraeli, Former
Prime Minister of Great Britain

All quotations, except that of Dr. Pinchas Lapide, may be found in "The
Messiahship of Jesus: Are Jews Changing Their Attitudes Towards Jesus?" by Dr.
Arthur Kac (Baker Book House, 1986). These Jews while praising Jesus are not
Believers.

Dr. Lapides's book is "The Resurrection of
Jesus" (Augsburg Publishing House,1983).He believes in a dual covenant-Moses
for the Jews and Christ for the gentiles.