[MestaMachine]

Boteach is wrong.

[Jonty30]

Unless, of course, Jesus was really the Messiah. Then the Jewish Rabbis are only guilty of rejecting their Saviour.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

One logical result is that Christians will convert to Judaism, a religion that Jesus never left.

[aruanan]

As for Schochet’s charge that the book will embolden Christians to convert Jews, Boteach said it “is the ultimate argument against Christian missionaries” [because it offers] significant information to argue convincingly against any Christian attempt to evangelize Jews.”

Poor guy. I suggest he study Saul of Tarsus.

[Ann Archy]

Why are Jews so afraid that they might be converted?? Especially by a book? One CANNOT be converted truly UNLESS they WANT TO?????

[Ann Archy]

Why are Jews so afraid that they might be converted?? Especially by a book? One CANNOT be converted truly UNLESS they WANT TO????? I should say, UNLESS the Holy Spirit calls them to Jesus.

[VietVet]

It seems narrow minded religious prejudice is not restricted to any one faith.

[Hiddigeigei]

Boteach's Kosher Jesus sounds like a variation of Hugh Schonfield’s The Passover Plot published some forty years ago. An interesting read, even if you don’t agree with the thesis.

[jjotto]

Boteach (who is far more popular among Christians than Jews) defends his book this way:

http://www.gefenpublishinginisrael.com/2012/01/19/what-is-motivating-the-global-ban-on-kosher-jesus/

...Kosher Jesus goes back to the original gospel source materials to uncover the real story of Jesus and portray him for whom he was prior to later Christian editors significantly modifying the story to accommodate the Romans.

Jesus was, as many have argued before me, a Torah-observant Jew whose mission it was to restore Jewish observance fully among his Jewish brethren and fight Roman persecution. For doing so he was turned over by the Roman collaborator, High Priest Caiaphas, who owed his office to the Romans, and was murdered by the Roman prefect Pontias Pilate – the Saddam Hussein of the ancient world – for doing so.

Jesus was a martyr for his people who never claimed to be divine, who never changed the Torah, and who would be scandalized to see his teachings – nearly all of which I trace back to their earlier Jewish sources – misused to persecute his people.

It was Paul, who never met Jesus, who later deified him and said he came to get rid of Torah practice. But Jesus himself said the opposite, in Matthew 5:18, that anyone who does not keep the whole Torah would be cast out of heaven...

[Jack Hydrazine]

Heebow: Jewish Football Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNV7o9wONHg