Defining Messianic Judaism

Addendum 1: What Do We Mean By "Jewish"? The UMJC Theology Committee defines Messianic Judaism as a Jewish congregational movement for Messiah: Messianic Judaism is a movement of Jewish congregations and congre-gation-like groupings committed to Yeshua the Messiah that embrace the covenantal responsibility of Jewish life and identity rooted in Torah, expressed in tradition, and renewed and applied in the context of the New Covenant.   Since the adjective "Jewish" appears twice in this basic state­ment, and is clearly at the heart of our self-definition, we must define what we mea