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Wonder what would happen if I alleged that "Jews don't worship the same God as Christians?"

You'd probably find that most Jews would agree with that statement.

Not the Jews I know, at any rate. Generally speaking, Jews do recognize that Christians worship the same God we do: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We differ in how many persons we believe are found in the Godhead, but we worship the same Being.

Judaism teaches that the righteous of all nations will have a place in the World to Come. Generally, we believe that Christianity is an acceptable form of monotheism for Gentiles. In fact, Maimonides wrote that despite the strict monotheism of Islam, he preferred Christianity for the reason that Christianity believes in the inspired nature of the Hebrew scriptures (Islam teaches that they have been corrupted).

I don't think that Jews believe that Jesus is the God they worship. Thus unless the Jew is willing to accept that Jesus is God, then obviously they are not worshiping the same God as the Orthodox Christian.

Now do you as a Jew worship Jesus? It is a requirement of Orthodox Christianity. It would appear to be an abomination to an Orthodox Jew.

So, with that in mind, do we worshp the same God? Is there really a meeting of the minds on who this God person is?