Moishe Rosen
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Moishe Rosen (April 12, 1932 - May 19, 2010), his given Hebrew name was Moshe or Moses and Moishe was the vernacular Yiddish. His parents were Ben Rosen and Rose Baker. He was the founder and former Executive Director of Jews for Jesus, an evangelical Christian missionary organization that focuses specifically on the conversion of Jews to Christianity. Rosen was raised in Denver, Colorado. According to Rosen his mother's parents were "Reform Jews from Austria", his paternal grandfather was Orthodox, and although Rosen's father regularly attended an Orthodox synagogue he was "not religious" and viewed religion as a "racket".
Rosen married Ceil Starr on 18 August 1950, and they became Christians in 1953. After graduating from Northeastern Bible College, Rosen made a commitment to be a missionary to Jews from 1956. He was ordained as a Conservative Baptist minister in 1957. He founded what became known as The Jews for Jesus movement in 1969. In 1973 Rosen left the employment of the American Board of Missions to the Jews (now called Chosen People Ministries) to incorporate a separate mission which became known as Jews for Jesus ministries. In 1986 he received a Doctor of Divinity Degree from Western Conservative Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He stepped down from his position as Executive Director in 1996, and continued to be employed as a staff missionary, remaining one of fifteen board members until his death on May 19, 2010.
Rosen was known as a flamboyant figure with a strong personality. He called himself both a "Christian" and a "Messianic Jew" - Within the Messianic movement, which comprises a spectrum of beliefs ranging from evangelical Christianity with a Jewish flavour at one end, to beliefs and practices seeking to emulate Orthodox Judaism with Yeshua added at the other, Rosen was firmly at the "evangelical pole" of the spectrum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Moishe Rosen (April 12, 1932 - May 19, 2010), his given Hebrew name was Moshe or Moses and Moishe was the vernacular Yiddish. His parents were Ben Rosen and Rose Baker. He was the founder and former Executive Director of Jews for Jesus, an evangelical Christian missionary organization that focuses specifically on the conversion of Jews to Christianity. Rosen was raised in Denver, Colorado. According to Rosen his mother's parents were "Reform Jews from Austria", his paternal grandfather was Orthodox, and although Rosen's father regularly attended an Orthodox synagogue he was "not religious" and viewed religion as a "racket".
Rosen married Ceil Starr on 18 August 1950, and they became Christians in 1953. After graduating from Northeastern Bible College, Rosen made a commitment to be a missionary to Jews from 1956. He was ordained as a Conservative Baptist minister in 1957. He founded what became known as The Jews for Jesus movement in 1969. In 1973 Rosen left the employment of the American Board of Missions to the Jews (now called Chosen People Ministries) to incorporate a separate mission which became known as Jews for Jesus ministries. In 1986 he received a Doctor of Divinity Degree from Western Conservative Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He stepped down from his position as Executive Director in 1996, and continued to be employed as a staff missionary, remaining one of fifteen board members until his death on May 19, 2010.
Rosen was known as a flamboyant figure with a strong personality. He called himself both a "Christian" and a "Messianic Jew" - Within the Messianic movement, which comprises a spectrum of beliefs ranging from evangelical Christianity with a Jewish flavour at one end, to beliefs and practices seeking to emulate Orthodox Judaism with Yeshua added at the other, Rosen was firmly at the "evangelical pole" of the spectrum