Rabbi Ephraim Ben Joseph Eliakim

From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. From the second century of the Christian Era, Tiberias by the Sea of Galilee was the seat of the Jewish Patriarchate, at that time the greatest centre of Jewish learning. It gave the […]

Rabbi Jacobs

From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. During the reign of the last Czar, the Jews of Russia were often cruelly persecuted, mobs rushing into the Jewish quarters to rob, wound and even kill. As at that time America had […]

Rabbi George Benedict

From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. George Benedict was born in Germany where his father was a Rabbi. When the Rabbi accepted a call to Sheffield the family emigrated to England. There young Benedict attended school. It was his […]

Rabbi Chil Slostowski

From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. As a descendant of a number of orthodox Rabbis I received a strict rabbinical education. I thank God for a mind which enabled me at the age of seventeen years to obtain the […]

Rabbi Charles Freshman

From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. Charles Freshman was born in Micklosh, a city pleasantly situated on the river Waag, in Hungary, as the oldest of thirteen children. The parents were strict adherents of Judaism and the father was […]

Rabbi Berg

From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. I personally knew six Rabbis, who publicly confessed Jesus Christ as their Saviour, although this meant the loss of everything that was dear to them. Rabbi Berg told me the following story of his […]

Dr. Bernard Jean Bettelheim (1811 – 1870)

Bernard Jean Bettelheim was born into a noted Jewish family in Pressburg, Hungary, in 1811. He studied, from a very early age, towards the goal of becoming a rabbi. It is said that by the age of ten he could read and write in French, German, and Hebrew, though if his biographies are to be believed, […]

Rabbi Asher Levy

From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. I was a Jewish Rabbi for 35 years. Born in Yugoslavia, I was brought up in a very orthodox Jewish home. I was taught to say formal prayers and wear phylacteries as prescribed for […]

Rabbi Rudolf Hermann Gurland

From Rabbis meet Jesus the Messiah – a collection of 24 biographies and testimonies of Rabbis encounters with Jesus the Messiah © Messianic Good News. “I have lived in two entirely different worlds, first as a Jew, and then as a Christian; first in a limited world of doubt and superstition under the fearful curse of the law; […]

Dr. Adolf Althausen

Originally published in Zions Freund in September 1936. Dr. Althausen was born into a family of pious Jews in Russia. Because his father was a Rabbi, Adolf was educated for the same career. At the age of 18 years, he was already a teacher of the Talmud. Ten years later, he had to give up that […]