I think there is a difference between teaching Christianity and the New Testament. Christianity is a religion with beliefs based on the New Testament, but it adds a lot of beliefs that are not explicitly stated in the New Testament like the Sabbath day being on Sunday. You also have other interpretations like in Messianic Judaism. I don't think anyone has to read the New Testament to understand Christianity. There is no point to it.
I am Jewish and I have never read the New Testament, and I don't plan to ever read it because I have heard enough about it here in America and I have seen a little bit of it in TV movies. I get the gist of it without reading it or watching whole movies about it.
In a way, none of this matters because it doesn't matter what they teach in school. What matters is what happens outside of school, and I predict in the future that many Jewish people, especially in Israel, will be converting to Messianic Judaism in the future, unless Jewish people come up with better arguments against Christianity. I have read and watched videos of debates between Jews and Christians and I think the Jewish arguments are pretty weak, except about the virgin birth prophecy that Christians claim is in Isaiah. I think it is just a matter of time.
Of course, very religious Jewish people might not convert because they don't go by the Hebrew Bible as much as the Talmud, so they would be harder to convince.
Kenneth Greifer
I think there is a difference between teaching Christianity and the New Testament. Christianity is a religion with beliefs based on the New Testament, but it adds a lot of beliefs that are not explicitly stated in the New Testament like the Sabbath day being on Sunday. You also have other interpretations like in Messianic Judaism. I don't think anyone has to read the New Testament to understand Christianity. There is no point to it.
I am Jewish and I have never read the New Testament, and I don't plan to ever read it because I have heard enough about it here in America and I have seen a little bit of it in TV movies. I get the gist of it without reading it or watching whole movies about it.
In a way, none of this matters because it doesn't matter what they teach in school. What matters is what happens outside of school, and I predict in the future that many Jewish people, especially in Israel, will be converting to Messianic Judaism in the future, unless Jewish people come up with better arguments against Christianity. I have read and watched videos of debates between Jews and Christians and I think the Jewish arguments are pretty weak, except about the virgin birth prophecy that Christians claim is in Isaiah. I think it is just a matter of time.
Of course, very religious Jewish people might not convert because they don't go by the Hebrew Bible as much as the Talmud, so they would be harder to convince.
Kenneth Greifer