[churchillbuff]

I find it interesting that one can be a New Ager, or an atheist, or an agnostic, or a Barbra Streisand liberal, and still be a "Jew," but let anyone of Jewish extraction - and belief in the Hebrew Testament - come to accept Jesus as the Messiah prophesied in that Testament, and people suddenly say that person can't be a "Jew."

Would a person with a Jewish mother be denied Israeli citizenship -- i.e., denied his or her Jewishness -- merely because he or she had come to believe that Jesus was the Messiah prophesied by Isaiah, Jeremiah and King David?

[HostileTerritory]

"Jew" has two meanings, an ethnic and a religious one. "Jews 4 Jesus" is a religious concept so it makes no sense to presume the ethnic meaning. Since they go to great lengths to assert that their beliefs fit within a Jewish theological framework, it would also contradict their own usage of the word to claim they're citing the ethnic usage.