From the Editor – Issue 43

From the Editor   “Behold the Man”—these words from John 19:5 became the title of a 2017 Israel Museum exhibit subtitled “Jesus in Israeli art.” Much of the exhibit remains available online at the museum website, www.imj.org.il/en/, and its implications for Messianic Judaism remain compelling. This issue of Kesher features an article by historian Judith Mendelsohn Rood based on the exhibit and interviews with its curator, Dr. Amitai Mendelsohn (no relation). This article is innovative, not only because it explores subject matter that is scandalous within the Jewish world, as i