Articles in Why Some Jews Believe in Jesus

Dennis K.: A New Definition of Success

I thought I'd put to rest questions about "The Meaning of Life" during my hippy days growing up around Washington, DC. After trying out a lot of schools in the area, I buckled down at American University. When I finished, I launched out into the business world. By then, I had decided that the meaning of life was that life had no meaning.
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Justin Kron: Jewish Roots and the Fruits of Faith

I think that sometimes people expect a certain plot line for stories like this. How some crisis precipitated a low point that led to a sudden, transforming decision. But the story of my decision to believe that Jesus is the Messiah came in stages; in different ways at different times in my life.
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Fran Feldman: A Whole Family, One Decision at a Time

The horrifying reality of the Holocaust was not something I had to learn about in books or in movies. It was the moving force that shaped my family's life. When my parents and older brother came to America from Europe after World War II, they settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. I was born a year later and my younger brother came along five years after that. Many of our neighbors had the same background, and the Holocaust was something we all were trying to put behind us.
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Emily Seemar: Messiah's Sheltering Love

My story would not be complete without including my mother's story. She had a difficult childhood and as an adult she sometimes found it hard to cope. My father had been raised as an observant Jew and was encouraged to get an education. But the more educated he became, the more he drifted from any sort of anchoring religious belief.
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Alan Shore: In Spite of Doubt

It has been almost 30 years since I accepted the claim that Jesus is the Messiah, according to the Hebrew prophets. When I look back at that callow, unformed youth and ask, "How could you have made such an outrageous decision?" I am amazed not so much that I did it, but that I have stood by that choice in all that has followed.
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A Jewish Sailor Reads Isaiah 53

By Israel Cohen

Once I was in the Navy and away from my parents, I had the opportunity to do some new things-not all of them strictly kosher-and also to consider some ideas that I never could have thought about before: ideas like Yeshua being the Messiah.
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