Okay, now I *do* have a Jewish-related question.

[conuly]

I vaguely know who the Jews for Jesus and Messianic Jews are. I'm curious, though - the few times I've heard them mentioned, it's been with some hostility. Why?

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[yadfothgildloc.livejournal.com]

Messianic Jews are an offshoot of Judaism and Christianity that holds that the messiah has come, and that he is Jesus.

Jews for Jesus are a specific organization under the larger rubric of "Messianic Jews."

Most Jews consider it disingenous at best, and lying outright at worst, to call a religion patently not Jewish (that is -"Christian") "Jewish."