Is a Jew who believes in Jesus no longer a Jew?

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In accepting Yeshua, Messianic Jews generally do not celebrate Christian holy days such as Christmas and Easter, which they do not consider to be part of Biblical tradition.
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A Christian pastor, the Rev. Sheppard Lawrence of Merritt Island, said he views Messianic Jews “more as Christians because of their belief in Jesus as the Messiah. But, by their own admission, they really don’t fit into the mainstream of organized Christianity.”

Levine, who said he has attended services at fundamentalist Christian churches but has no “direct ties” to them, counters “Yeshua clearly is the Jewish Messiah,” written about in the Tenach, the Old Testament, by the Jewish prophets. In short, to Messianic Jews, the Messiah already has arrived on Earth. To traditional Jews like Margolis, that is a ridiculous notion. They believe one simply cannot believe in Jesus and be Jewish.
- Controversial Jewish sect professes faith in Jesus, The Herald, Nov. 27, 2005

They are avoided by most Jews and misunderstood by many Christians.

Though they share beliefs with both faiths, they don’t belong to either.

They are Messianic Jews – Jews who believe Jesus is the Messiah.

Twenty years after Memphis’s first Messianic congregation moved from a private home into a converted bungalow in East Memphis, B’rit Hadasha Messianic Jewish Synagogue is still a bit of a mystery to most.

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