Martin Buber (1878-1965), leading Jewish writer, thinker, philosopher, theologian

“From my youth onwards I have found in Jesus my great brother. That Christianity has regarded and does regard him as God and Savior has always appeared to me a fact of the highest importance which, for his sake and my own, I must endeavor to understand... I am more than ever certain that a great place belongs to him in Israel's history of faith and that this place cannot be described by any of the usual categories.”

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist and professor at Princeton University

“As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene....No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrase-mongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.”

"What Life Means to Einstein," The Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929.

Benjamin Disraeli (1868), Prime Minister of England

Benjamin Disraeli, who became Britain's prime minister, articulated 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."

More Benjamin Disraeli

Israel Zolli (1943), Chief Rabbi of Rome

When asked why he had "given up the synagogue for the church," Zolli replied, "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."

More Israel Zolli

Rabbi Daniel Zion (World War II), Chief Rabbi of Bulgarian Jews

"I am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He delivered me from the poverty-stricken self with his great love, he cherishes me."

More Rabbi Daniel