Over the years I have read about Jewish Believers in Yeshua Messiah and
have been blessed by them, the following list of 52 Jewish Believers I
hope will bless you as well.  You know Jewish people do come to faith in
 Yeshua(Jesus) as their Messiah, and I know that for each one of these
52 listed below, their are 25 more not listed.  Some within the mainline
Jewish community have sought to diminish their reputations with the
false charge that they were not learned of Judaism and thus disparage
their coming to faith.  Many Jews in Israel who come to faith don't tell
anyone for fear they will be put out of their communities.  This I know
for a fact.  The following short biographies and landmark dates
establish that over the years many loyal Jewish individuals, Rabbis,
Jewish educators, and others from well taught backgrounds have
recognized that Yeshua (Jesus) real is their Messiah.

A Historical Survey of 52 Prominent Jewish Believers in Messiah Yeshua

1506 - Alfonso de Zamora  -  Rabbi
Alfonso de Zamora, a Rabbi, publicly declared his faith in Messiah Jesus
in 1506. Working with Paul Nunez Coronel and Alfonso d'Alcala, two other
Jewish believers, he uses his knowledge of Hebrew, Aramaic, Chaldean,
and other languages to help develop a six-volume multilingual work known
as the Polyglot Bible. He also writes a Hebrew grammar, a Hebrew
dictionary, a dictionary of the Old Testament, and a treatise on Hebrew
spelling.

1530 - Immanuel Tremellius - Hebrew Scholar, University Professor
Immanuel Tremellius came to faith in Messiah around 1530 and became
Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University in 1548. He later becomes
Professor of Theology at Heidelberg, where he produces a Latin Old
Testament that is published in Frankfurt in the 1570s and London in
1580. With Theodore Beza's Latin New Testament attached to it, the
 TremelliusBible is the Protestant contender against the Vulgate issued
by Pope Sixtus V in a Reformation vs. Counter Reformation battle of
Latin bibles.

1546 - Johannes Isaac  -  Hebrew Scholar, University Professor
Johannes Isaac came to faith in 1546.  He became a professor of Hebrew
at the University of Cologne.

1621 - Malachi ben Samuel  -   Polish Rabbi
Malachi ben Samuel, a Polish Rabbi, comes to faith in Messiah around
1621, several years after being impressed by a Yiddish translation of
the New Testament. He is particularly surprised that marginal references
to the Hebrew Scriptures are not distorted, as he had been told they
would be. He writes, "My heart became full of doubt. No man can believe
the pain and ache that assailed my heart. I had no rest day or night....
What should I do? To whom should I speak of these things?" He finally
feels he has no choice but to believe.

1625 - Giovanni Jonas  -  Hebrew Scholar
Giovanni Jonas came to faith in Poland in 1625 and, working as a
librarian,  writes a Hebrew translation of the Gospels and a
Hebrew-Chaldee lexicon.

1656 - Esdras Edzard - Hebrew Scholar
 EsdrasEdzard, who grew up studying Hebrew and the Talmud, and then
studied in Leipzig, Wittenberg, and Basel, earns a doctorate and begins
working among the Jews of Hamburg. He provides free instruction in
Hebrew, helps the poor, and explains faith in Messiah to all. From 1671
to 1708 Edzard leads 148 Jewish people to faith. He emphasizes further
study for those coming to faith, and almost all of those who joined him
continue in faith.

1709 - John Xeres - Talmudic Scholar
John Xeres counteracts the slur that Jewish believers in Jesus are not
well-educated in Judaism by emphasizing his Talmudic studies. Others on
the list of learned Jewish believers include Ludwig Compiegne de Veil,
Friedrich Albrecht Augusti, Paul Weidner, Julius Conrad Otto, Johann
Adam Gottfried, and more.

1722 - Rabbi Judah Monis
Rabbi Judah Monis, after becoming the first Jewish individual to receive
a college degree in America (M.A., Harvard, 1720), publicly embraces
faith in Messiah Jesus. In 1735 he publishes a Hebrew grammar, the first
to be published in America.

1758 - Seelig Bunzlau - German Rabbi
 SeeligBunzlau, a revered German Rabbi, announces from the pulpit of his
synagogue that he is has placed his faith in Messiah.

1781 - William Herschel - Scientist & Astronomer
William Herschel, a Jewish believer, using a telescope he designed and
constructed, discovers the planet Uranus. Herschel also fixes the
positions of 2,500 nebulas, of which only 103 had previously been known.
He infers the existence of binary stars, and then identifies 209 such
pairs of stars that revolve around a common center. He discovers the
infrared rays of the sun, defines and explains the composition of the
Milky Way, and makes many other discoveries.

1782 - Joseph von Sonnenfels, Distinguished Jurist
Joseph von Sonnenfels, a distinguished jurist in Vienna and a Jewish
believer, lays out the principles for the Edict of Toleration regarding
Jews that Austrian emperor Joseph II announces.

1808 - Joseph Samuel Frey - Hebrew teacher and Cantor
Joseph Samuel Frey, a Hebrew teacher and cantor, organizes the London
Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews. He later comes to the
United States and continues efforts to organize Jewish believers.

1810 - August Neander (David Mendel) - Professor at the University of
Berlin
August Neander (born David Mendel) becomes Professor of Church History
at the University of Berlin, where the influential Friedrich
Schleiermacher also teaches. One observer comments on the "sad and
singular sight" of "Schleiermacher, a Christian by birth, inculcating in
one lecture room with all the power of his mighty genius, those
doctrines which led to the denial of the evangelical attributes of
Jesus." Meanwhile, in another room "Neander, by birth a Jew, preached
and taught salvation through faith in Messiah the Son of God alone."
 Neanderwrites many scholarly books, including the multivolume General
History of the Christian Religion and Church. Before his death in 1850
he goes blind, but dictates notes for the last section of his church
history on the last day of his life.

1822 - Isaac da Costa - Author & Defender of European Jewry
Isaac da Costa, his wife Hannah, and his friend Abraham Capadose come to
faith in Holland. Da Costa becomes Holland's leading poet and Capadose a
leading physician; da Costa's book, Accusations Against the Spirit of
the Century, attacks the rationalistic materialism that is coming to
dominate Holland and demands that Messiah again become the center of
national life. Da Costa writes often of Messiah and also his Jewish
heritage: "In the midst of the contempt and dislike of the world for the
name of Jew I have ever gloried in it." The Jewish Encyclopedia comments
about him, "His character, no less than his genius, was respected by his
contemporaries. To the end of his life he felt only reverence and love
for his former co-religionists."

1825 - Rabbi Michael Solomon Alexander - English Rabbi
Rabbi Michael Solomon Alexander comes to faith Messiah in 1825 after
concluding that Rabbis had concealed the truth about Jesus; seven years
later he becomes Professor of Hebrew and Rabbinical Literature at King's
College, London. His name comes first on the long list of those who
signed a "protest of Jewish Christians in England" against the false
accusation that Jews used Christian blood in Passover rites. When the
British Parliament endows the position of Bishop of Jerusalem, the
appointment goes to Alexander; in Jerusalem, he opens both an
institution for the training of Jewish believers and a hospital for the
sick Jewish residents of Jerusalem.

1826 - Felix Mendelssohn - Composer
Felix Mendelssohn, Jewish believer and grandson of the great Jewish
philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, writes his overture to A Midsummer
Night's Dream. He brings new public attention to Bach's music, composes
the Elijah and St. Paul oratorios, and arouses the resentment of
anti-Semites by helping Jewish musicians. He composes the music to "Hark
the Herald Angels Sing" and harmonizes "Now Thank We All Our God," among
other hymns.

1844 - Joachim Raphael Biesenthal -
Joachim Raphael Biesenthal, a Jewish believer,  begins 37 years of
ministry within the Jewish communities of Germany. He uses the knowledge
gained in Talmudic academies and while earning a doctorate at the
University of Berlin to write commentaries on many New Testament books
as well as a History of the Christian Church that shows the strong
 Jewishnessof the early church.

1847 - Carl Paul Caspari - University Professor
Carl Paul Caspari, a Jewish believer, begins teaching at the University
of Christiana in Norway. He writes commentaries on many Old Testament
books and, at a time when Christianity is under attack, stands for
orthodoxy and becomes known over the following 45 years as "the teacher
of all Scandinavia." He also writes an Arabic grammar that becomes a
standard work.

1859 - David Gustav Hertz - Advocate for Judicial Reform
Lawyer David Gustav Hertz becomes a municipal official in Hamburg,
Germany, and holds various positions over the next 45 years. He works
for reform of the justice and prison systems at a time when doing so put
an individual at risk from those with a vested interest in corruption.

1863 - Daniel Landsmann, a Jerusalem Talmudic Scholar
Daniel Landsmann, a Jerusalem Talmudic scholar came to faith in 1863, is
almost killed-but by his own people, angered that someone well educated
in Jewish tradition should become a believer in Jesus. His faith in
Messiah began when he finds upon the street a page in Hebrew torn from a
book. He loves what he reads, and when he later finds out that it is the
Sermon on the Mount, he thinks differently about Jesus than he did
before. When he tells all that he believes Jesus is the Messiah, his
wife leaves him, one fanatical group puts spikes in his hands, and
another tries to bury him alive. He finally moves to New York City and,
with a wealth of Talmudic knowledge and a humble spirit, moves many to
consider Messiah.

1868 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of England
Benjamin Disraeli, a Jewish believer, becomes Britain's prime minister.
Disraeli, both the Conservative Party leader and the author of many
popular books, emphasizes Christianity's dependence on Judaism: "In all
church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly
only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the 'law and the prophets.'
Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is
incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without
Christianity." He hopes that Jews "will accept the whole of their
religion instead of only the half of it, as they gradually grow more
familiar with the true history and character of the New Testament."
Throughout his career in Parliament he very publicly attacks those with
anti-Semitic views and shows himself to be a proud Zionist.

1870 - Isaac Salkinson, Hebrew Scholar
Isaac Salkinson of Vienna translates Milton's Paradise Lost into Hebrew.
Over the next 15 years he translates into Hebrew Othello, Romeo and
Juliet, and then the Greek New Testament.

1877 - Joseph Schereschewsky, Scholar & Translator
Joseph Schereschewsky, a former Lithuanian Rabbinical student, is
consecrated as the Episcopal Church's Bishop of Shanghai. In 1879 he
lays the cornerstone for St. John's College, the first Protestant
college in China. Regarded by the Academic community as one of the most
learned Orientalists in the world, he also translates the Bible into
both Mandarin and colloquial Chinese and stays at his translation tasks
even though partially paralyzed and unable to speak.

1883 - Alfred Edersheim, Biblical Scholar
Alfred Edersheim finishes seven years of writing The Life and Times of
Jesus the Messiah, which becomes the standard scholarly work in English
for the next 100 years. Born in Austria, he serves as a minister in
Scotland and a lecturer at Oxford. Four other major books of Biblical
scholarship would flow from his pen.

1885 - Joseph Rabinowitz, Talmudic scholar and Lawyer
Talmudic scholar and lawyer Joseph Rabinowitz comes to faith in Messiah
Jesus in 1885, and, through writings and lectures, begins influencing
Russian Jews to become "Sons of the New Covenant." He draws up a list of
12 articles of faith, patterned after Maimonides's 13 principles, but
proclaiming Jesus as the Messiah. He forms one of the early Messianic
Congregations.

1892 - Leopold Cohn, Hungarian Rabbi
Leopold Cohn, a Hungarian Rabbi, comes to believe that Jesus is the
Messiah. An outraged Jewish community forces him to flee, so he studies
at divinity school in Scotland, emigrates to the United States with his
family, and begins to hold meetings in a heavily Jewish section of
Brooklyn that demonstrate that Jesus is the Messiah. Later he opens a
medical clinic and a kosher food kitchen, and delivers free coal to the
Jewish poor. The outreach he started grew into "Chosen People
Ministries", an International organization.

1892 - Louis Meyer, Doctor & Surgeon
Louis Meyer, a Jewish Doctor & Surgeon and immigrant to Cincinnati from
Germany, come to faith. He goes on to receive a degree from an
evangelical Seminary in Pittsburgh. His scholarship is recognized and he
becomes one of the editors of The Fundamentals, the 90 essays produced
between 1910 and 1915 to explain the difference between Biblical faith
and Liberal Protestantism.

1894 - David Ginsburg, Hebrew Scholar
An emigrant from Poland to England, David Ginsburg, publishes a
scholarly work including (in 1894) The Massoretic-Critical Text of the
Hebrew Bible.

1904 - Max Wertheimer, Reform Rabbi
Max Wertheimer, after serving for 10 years as a Rabbi in Dayton, Ohio,
publicly declares his faith in Messiah.  He then goes to an evangelical
seminary, eventually becoming a Pastor. He recalls, "I had tried to get
some tangible comfort out of the Talmud, Mishnah, and Rabbinical
doctrines, but found none that satisfied my soul's hunger and longings."
In studying the New Testament, though, he sees that the Christian
doctrines he had derided as illogical and un-Jewish are sensible and
truly Jewish.

1909 - Isaac Lichtenstein, Chief Rabbi of Hungary
In 1909, Isaac Lichtenstein dies, leaving writings explaining how he
read a copy of the New Testament after 40 years of work as a Rabbi in
Hungary and was impressed by "the greatness, power, and glory of this
book, formerly a sealed book to me. All seemed so new to me and yet it
did me good like the sight of an old friend.... I had thought the New
Testament to be impure, a source of pride, of selfishness, of hatred,
and of the worst kind of violence, but as I opened it I felt myself
peculiarly and wonderfully taken possession of. A sudden glory, a light
flashed through my soul. I looked for thorns and found roses; I
discovered pearls instead of pebbles; instead of hatred, love; instead
of vengeance, forgiveness; instead of bondage, freedom."

A letter to his son, a doctor, reports that "From every line in the New
Testament, from every word, the Jewish spirit streamed forth light,
life, power, endurance, faith, hope, love, charity, limitless and
indestructible faith in God." Others, hating the idea of a long-term
Rabbi turning "renegade," attack Lichtenstein. His reply: "I have been
an honored Rabbi for the space of 40 years, and now, in my old age, I am
treated by my friends as one possessed by an evil spirit, and by my
enemies as an outcast. I am become a butt of mockers, who point the
finger at me. But while I live I will stand on my tower, though I may
stand there all alone. I will listen to the words of God."

1913 - Arthur Kuldell, Messianic Jewish Leader
Arthur Kuldell convenes a gathering of Jewish believers in Pittsburgh
who establish the "Hebrew Christian Alliance of America". Kuldell
explains, "The Alliance is not a lodge. It is not a society organized
for the purpose of aiding its members to the exclusion of others. It is
not here to defame and slander the Jew behind his back. It is an
organization that breathes the spirit of Messiah. It is actuated by the
 tenderestlove for Israel."

1921 - Max Reich, Professor and Zionist
Max Reich, a Jewish believer and Professor of Biblical Studies combats
anti-Jewish propaganda, writing that "the so-called 'Protocols of the
Learned Elders of Zion' was one of the basest forgeries ever fathered on
the Jewish people. Jewish believers [in Messiah] will stand by their
slandered nation at this time.... Jewish believers utterly detest the
... unscrupulous Jew-haters, who remain anonymous, bent on stirring up
racial strife and religious bigotry."

1922 - Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize for Physics
 Niels Bohr wins the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on atomic
structure. In 1939 he visits the United States and spreads the news that
German scientists are working on splitting the atom. The United States
responds with the Manhattan Project, from which the atomic bomb emerges.
In 1942 he escapes from German-occupied Denmark via a fishing boat to
Sweden, and leaves there by traveling in the empty bomb rack of a
British military plane. He makes it to the United States and works on
the atomic bomb at Los Alamos.

1927 - Henri Bergson, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Henri Bergson wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. The French
philosopher wrote books including An Introduction to Metaphysics (which
develops a theory of knowledge) and Creative Evolution (which concludes
that Darwinian mechanisms cannot explain life's expansiveness and
creativity). During the 1920s Bergson becomes a believer in Jesus, and
in his final book, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, describes
Judeo-Christian understanding as the culmination of human social
evolution. In 1937 he explains that his reflections led him to faith in
Jesus, "in which I see the complete fulfillment of Judaism," but he was
reluctant to do anything that would separate him from his own Jewish
people, because he was foreseeing "the formidable wave of anti-Semitism
which is to sweep over the world. I wanted to remain among those who
tomorrow will be persecuted."

1930 - Hans Herzl, son of Theodore Herzl (founder of modern Zionism)
Hans Herzl, son of Theodore Herzl (founder of modern Zionism), commits
suicide after growing up at an Orthodox Jewish boarding school, coming
to faith in Messiah, undergoing tremendous abuse, and then retreating to
liberal Judaism. The Baltimore Jewish Times honestly reports that "when
Herzl's son became a convert to Christianity - not for material gain,
but because he believed that if the idea of Jewish nationalism is
thought to its final conclusion one can be a Christian Jew - he was read
out of Jewry. The death of ... Herzl reminds us that in many instances
we are ruthless fanatics."

1930 - Haham Ephraim ben Joseph Eliakim, a Rabbi in Tiberias
The year 1930 saw the funeral of Haham Ephraim ben Joseph Eliakim, a
Rabbi in Tiberias, Jewish Palestine, who after studying biblical
prophecies believes that Jesus is the Messiah. Eliakim undergoes
tremendous harassment from his former colleagues. He is buried in
Jerusalem alongside a Christian Arab, with one reporter noting that "Jew
and Arab were laid one beside the other, and Jews and Arabs were
standing with bowed heads by the two open graves, touched and softened
the one toward the others."

1933 - Sir Leon Levison, Messianic Jewish Leader
Sir Leon Levison, founder and head of the International Hebrew Christian
Alliance, rallies Jewish believers in 1933 to oppose Hitler. Levison
states that there are 2.35 million Jews in Germany: 600,000 still
identifying with Rabbinical Judaism and one and three-quarter million
believers in Jesus of Jewish descent who go back to the second, third
and fourth generation. Both groups, he notes, "are treated as Jews and
are subject to vicious discrimination." Jewish Christians also face
discrimination from their own people: "If they apply to Jewish Relief
agencies, they are told they must abandon their belief in Jesus."

1938 - Morris Zeidman, Messianic Jewish Leader
Morris Zeidman of the "Hebrew Christian Alliance of America" appeals for
help for the Jews and Jewish believers of Poland, Germany, and Austria,
where "sorrow is turning into despair. They can see no hope, not a gleam
of light or kindness anywhere.... We must help, if we have to sacrifice
a meal a day. Surely those of us who eat three meals a day can afford to
spare the price of one meal for our persecuted brethren in Central
Europe."

1943 - Israel Zolli, Chief Rabbi of Rome
Israel Zolli served as Professor of Hebrew at the University of Padua
from 1927 to 1938, then as Chief Rabbi of Rome. In that position he
helps to save about 4,000 Roman Jews as the Nazis enter Rome. Posing as
a structural engineer, he enters the Vatican and asks Pope Pius XII to
protect Rome's Jews. He offered himself as a hostage in return for the
safety of the Jewish community. The pope makes churches, monasteries,
convents, and the Vatican itself sanctuaries for them. Zolli publicly
proclaims his faith in Messiah in 1945.  He said: "No one in the world
ever tried to convert me . . . (my faith) was a slow evolution,
altogether internal"

Asked why he has "given up the synagogue for the church", Zolli replies,
"I have not given it up. Christianity is the completion of the
synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise, and Christianity is the
fulfillment of that promise", "Once a Jew always a Jew". When asked if
he believes that Jesus is the Messiah, he says, "Yes, positively. I have
believed it many years. And now I am so firmly convinced of the truth of
it that I can face the whole world and defend my faith with the
certainty and solidity of the mountains."

As a result, Rabbinical Jewish leaders call him a heretic, excommunicate
him, proclaim a fast of several days in atonement for his "treason," and
mourn him as one dead. Zolli responds, "When my wife and I embraced the
church we lost everything we had in the world. We shall now have to look
for work: and God will help us to find some." God does, as Zolli becomes
a writer and teacher.

1951 - Karl Stern, University Professor and Neuropsychiatrist
Karl Stern, an emigrant from Nazi Germany to Canada, a noted
 neuropsychiatristand Jewish believer, publishes his autobiography, The
Pillar of Fire. One of his McGill University post-war Jewish students,
Bernard Nathanson, who would go on to a Medical career, recalls him as
"a great teacher; a riveting, even eloquent lecturer in a language not
his own, and a brilliant contrarian spewing out original and daring
ideas as reliably as Old Faithful. I conceived an epic case of
hero-worship.... There was something indefinably serene and certain
about him." When Nathanson reads The Pillar of Fire, he realizes that
Stern "possessed a secret I had been searching for all my life, the
secret of the peace of Messiah."

1953 - Dr. Boris Kornfeld, Medical Doctor, hero of the Gulag
Dr. Boris Kornfeld, imprisoned in a Soviet concentration camp for
political reasons, talks with a devout Christian and comes to believe in
Messiah. In his position as Doctor of the camp, he tries to help
starving prisoners by refusing to sign papers that will send them to
their deaths, and he reports to the camp commandant an orderly who is
stealing food from prisoners. One day he talks at length about Messiah
with a patient who has just been operated on for cancer. That night the
orderly has his revenge and Dr. Kornfeld is murdered, but the patient
ponders his words, becomes a Christian, and eventually writes about
 Kornfeldand conditions in the Gulag. The patient's name: Alexander
Solzhenitsyn.

1963 - Robert Novak, Political Analyst and Reporter
Robert Novak teams up with Rowland Evans to write a column on Washington
politics, "Inside Report." It becomes one of the longest-running
syndicated columns in the United States, and is known for its scoops and
feisty analysis. Novak continues the column after Evans's death in 1993,
becomes a television regular as well.

1974 - Howard Phillips, Chairman of the U.S. Office of Economic
Opportunity
Howard Phillips, former chairman of the U.S. Office of Economic
Opportunity, founds the Conservative Caucus. While researching, he runs
across biblical perspectives on public policy, and that leads to his
coming to faith. He says, "I began to spend more time studying the
Scripture, both Old and New Testament, and began to come to grips with
the constantly mentioned subject of blood sacrifice as the basis for
atonement for sin where God was concerned. The ultimate blood sacrifice
for sin, obviously, is Jesus. I committed my life to Him as Lord and
Savior"

1976 - Dr. David Block, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy
Dr. David Block, a professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy in
South Africa, becomes a believer in Messiah. He writes, "I'd listen in
 shulas the Rabbis expounded how God was a personal God and how God
would speak to Moses, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, and wonder how
I fit into all of it. And by the time I entered university I became
concerned over the fact that I had no assurance that God was indeed a
personal God.... Where was the personality and the vibrancy of a God who
could speak to David Block? If God is truly God, I reasoned, then why
had he suddenly changed his character?"

A Christian colleague tells Block that a minister will be able to answer
his questions; he reports, "My parents had taught me to seek answers
where they may be found, and so I consented to meet with this Christian
minister. [He] read to me from the New Testament book of Romans where
Paul says that Yeshua (Jesus) is a stumbling block to Jewish people, but
that those who would believe in Yeshua would never be ashamed. Suddenly
it all became very clear to me: Yeshua had fulfilled the messianic
prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures, such as where the Messiah would be
born and how he was to die.... I knew that Jesus was the Messiah and is
the Messiah. And I surrendered my heart and my soul to Him that day."

He concludes, "It might seem strange to some that a scientist and a Jew
could come to faith in Jesus. But faith is never a leap into the dark.
It is always based on evidence. That was how my whole search for God
began. I looked through my telescope at Saturn and said to myself, Isn't
there a great God out there? The logical next step was to want to meet
this Designer face-to-face."

1982 - Andrew Mark Barron, Aerospace Engineer
Aerospace engineer Andrew Mark Baron, raised in Conservative Judaism,
comes to faith in Messiah. He writes that in college "I believed God
existed because of the phenomenal order to the universe, yet I felt
human beings were far too miniscule for His notice." Reading the New
Testament helps him to see that God "constructed us with souls that can
be fed only by His own hand. Believing God cares is not intellectual
suicide; believing that He doesn't care is spiritual starvation."

1986 - Mortimer Adler, Professor at the University of Chicago
Mortimer Adler, author of numerous books on philosophical topics,
becomes a Jewish believer at age 84. A long-time professor at the
University of Chicago, he pushes for a "great books" and "great ideas"
curriculum and writes popular works such as How to Read a Book (1940),
The Common Sense of Politics (1971), and Six Great Ideas (1981). He
writes an autobiography in 1977, Philosopher at Large, but writes
another 15 years later (A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further
Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large) that explains
his coming to faith in Jesus. "We have a logical, consistent faith," he
says. "In fact, I believe [faith in Messiah] is the only logical,
consistent faith in the world."

1990 - Bernard Nathanson, Medical Doctor
In the year 1969 Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former student of Karl Stern, a
noted Neuropsychiatrist, runs the largest abortion clinic in the world,
and co-founds the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Law.
After being involved directly or indirectly in over 75,000 abortions
(including one of his own child) and seeing his political goals achieved
with the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision that legalizes abortion
nationwide, he comes to understand that he has been killing human
beings. In the late 1970s he does a complete turn-around and becomes a
leading pro-life advocate and produces an effective video, The Silent
Scream. Contact with Christian pro-life workers gets him thinking about
the source of their dedication: "They prayed, they supported and
encouraged each other, they sang hymns of joy.... They prayed for the
unborn babies, for the confused and pregnant women, and for the doctors
and nurses in the clinic.... And I wondered: How can these people give
of themselves for a constituency that is (and always will be) mute,
invisible, and unable to thank them?" Around 1990 Nathanson becomes a
believer in Jesus.

1993 - Jay Sekulow, Attorney
Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice,
successfully argues the Lambs Chapel case before the U.S. Supreme Court;
the Court states that religious groups cannot be discriminated against
in the use of public facilities made available to other groups. Sekulow
appears before the Supreme Court numerous times in defense of religious
freedom, and writes about his own religious liberation as he tried to
understand the description of the "suffering servant" in chapter 53 of
Isaiah: "I kept looking for a traditional Jewish explanation that would
satisfy, but found none. The only plausible explanation seemed to be
Jesus. My Christian friends were suggesting other passages for me to
read, such as Daniel 9. As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really
be the Messiah was confirmed.... I'd always thought my cultural Judaism
was sufficient, but in the course of studying about the Messiah who
would die as a sin bearer, I realized that I needed a Messiah to do that
for me."

1997 - Lawrence Kudlow, Undersecretary of the Office of Management and
Budget . My personal favorite
Lawrence Kudlow expresses faith in Messiah after emerging from a battle
with addiction. In the 1980s he served as undersecretary of US Office of
Management and Budget. In 1994 The New York Times published a full-page
article, "A Wall Street Star's Agonizing Confession," about Kudlow's
life and addiction to cocaine. He resigns from his $1-million-a-year job
as chief economist at the Wall Street firm of Bear Stearns and later
says, "As I hit bottom, I lost jobs, lost all income, lost friends, and
very nearly lost my wife. I was willing to surrender and take it on
faith that I had to change my life."  I started searching for God."
Then, "All of a sudden it clicked, that . . . Jesus died for me, too."
 Kudlowis now chief economist for CNBC and a frequent writer of articles
that make the science of economics understandable to readers.

2001 - Richard Wurmbrand - Prisoner of the Nazis and Communists
Richard Wurmbrand, born into a Jewish home in Europe and founder of The
Voice of the Martyrs, dies at age 91. After becoming a believer in
Romania in 1936 and then a pastor, Wurmbrand and his wife are arrested
several times by the Nazi government. He evangelizes Russian soldiers
who are prisoners of war and does the same with Russian occupation
forces after August, 1944.

Communist leaders imprison Wurmbrand in 1948, subject him to physical
and mental torture, threaten his family, and finally imprison his wife
as well. She is released in 1953 and he in 1956, but he is re-arrested
in 1959 and sentenced to 25 years for preaching Scriptures that are
contrary to Communist doctrine. Political pressure from Western
countries leads to his release in 1964. The Wurmbrand family leaves
Romania in 1965 and begins informing the world about persecution of
Christians in that country and elsewhere. By the mid-1980s The Voice of
the Martyrs has offices in 30 countries and is working in 80 nations
where Christians are threatened.

Edited by Mottel Baleston from sources including GRACE TO ISRAEL; WORLD;
and HEBREW-CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE  QUARTERLY

I could list many more, but these 52 are outstanding.

Stephen Yulish PhD has a BA in Human Evolution and a MA and a PHD in History. He was a Professor at the University of Arizona and later a Jewish community professional. In spite of all of this, he accepted Jesus Christ in 1988 after a series of revelatory visions and a dream. He now has MS but still serves the Lord everyday through his writings.