Jason Sobel is not your typical rabbi. Born and raised in a Jewish home, confirmed as a “bar mitzvah,” meaning “one subject to the law,” at age 13, Mr. Sobel went on to study Hebrew ...

Jewish groups decry Messianic Jewish rabbi's prayer at Pence rally (RNS) — 'A basic tenet of Jewish faith, no matter what stream you come from, is that it does not accept that Jesus is the Messiah.

A Messianic Christian rabbi, who was widely condemned by Jews after he was invoked “Jesus the Messiah” during a prayer for the Jewish victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, had ...

In one especially prominent incident, Jewish groups were outraged when a Messianic “rabbi” appeared onstage at a campaign rally attended by then-Vice President Mike Pence in 2018 to offer a ...

The rabbi who appeared alongside Vice President Pence and invoked “Jesus the Messiah” while mourning the victims of a Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting was defrocked more than a decade ago.

Rabbi Loren Jacobs — who curiously invoked Jesus while delivering a prayer for the Jewish victims on Monday — was defrocked 15 years ago by the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations ...

Jacobs self-identifies as a rabbi, but the movement to which he belongs — Messianic Judaism, which sees Jesus Christ as the promised Old Testament Messiah — is controversial in Jewish circles.

In one especially prominent incident, Jewish groups were outraged when a Messianic “rabbi” appeared onstage at a campaign rally attended by then-Vice President Mike Pence in 2018 to offer a ...

Who was the mystery MAGA rabbi who prayed with Trump? We found him — but big questions remain Donald Trump's Miami photo op with a Jesus-loving "rabbi" set the Jewish community abuzz.

Messianic Jews, including the group Jews for Jesus, celebrate Jewish holidays but also believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ, a teaching that Jews consider incompatible with Judaism.

Jewish groups are speaking out against Vice President Mike Pence's appearance at a rally Oct. 29 in Michigan with Loren Jacobs, a defrocked clergyman in the Messianic Jewish movement.