Competing Trends In Messianic Judaism : A Response

In the Spring, 2004, issue of Kesher, Ms. Gabriela Reason tackles a series of complex and controversial issues facing the modern Messianic Jewish movement. Her thesis focuses on the tensions inherent in the movement between the pulls of Evangelical Christianity and Judaism. On the one hand, as she purports, Messianic Judaism was birthed from the modern Evangelical move­ment, and yet on other, the Messianic movement is increasingly identifying with and seeking to cooperate with the larger Jewish world. She throws down the gauntlet to the Messianic Jewish com­munity to understand these tension