FOREWORD “I am your friend!” Thus began Dr. Dan Cohn-Sherbok’s speech to the annual conference of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations in the summer of 2000. With a skeptic’s ear, I sat back and listened to this gentle, Reform rabbi explain why he was a friend of Messianic Jews. In case you don’t know this, as a rule, Jewish people who believe in Yeshua the Messiah are usually considered to be outside the Jewish world. Messianic Jews, as they are called, have been labeled as ignoramuses, traitors,
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