Moishe roses

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Martin "Moishe" Rosen (born April 12, 1932 in Kansas City , Missouri, † May 19, 2010 in San Francisco ) was the founder and later managing director of Jews for Jesus , an evangelical missionary society that addresses Jews .

life and work

Rosen was born as Martin Meyer Rosen in Kansas City. In the early 1970s he changed his first name to Moishe. His parents, Ben Rosen and Rose Baker, were European Orthodox Jewish immigrants. Rosen grew up in Denver . He attended Colorado College , where he met his future wife, Ceil Starr, who was also Jewish. Rosen initially had a negative attitude towards religion.

On August 18, 1950, Starr and Rosen were married in an Orthodox synagogue. Shortly after their marriage, Starr took an interest in Christianity and converted to Christianity in 1953. In the same year, Rosen also converted to Christianity. He gave up his job as a salesman and moved to New York with his wife . He attended the "Northeastern Bible College" in New Jersey and joined the "American Board of Missions to the Jews", today "Chosen People Ministries", an organization that has the mission of the Jews as a goal. After graduating from college in 1957, he was ordained pastor in a Conservative Baptist Church. In the same year he went to Los Angeles to look after various Judeo-Christian groups. In 1967 he returned to New York as executive director of the American Board of Mission to the Jews, and in 1970 he moved to San Francisco, where he began to work as a missionary among hippies . In 1973 he left the American Board of Mission to the Jews and founded the mission organization Jews for Jesus . In 1983 he was one of the founders of the Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism.

In 1986 he received an honorary doctorate from the Western Conservative Baptist Seminary in Portland . In 1996, at the age of 64, he resigned as managing director of Jews for Jesus , but remained one of a total of fifteen board members until his death. In 1997, the Conservative Baptist Association named him the Hero of the Faith.

Rosen wrote numerous articles and books and a large number of pamphlets , which he referred to as "broadsides". He was a member of the First Baptist Church and later of the Dolores Park Church in San Francisco, a church belonging to the Evangelical Covenant Church.

According to an employee, Rosen kept some Jewish customs throughout his life, such as the Seder on Passover , fasted on Yom Kippur and married couples under a chuppah , the Jewish wedding canopy .

Rosen died of prostate cancer on May 19, 2010 in San Francisco at the age of 78.

Publications

Rosen is the author of numerous English-language books. Published in German translation:

biography

  • Ruth Rosen: Called to Controversy. The Unlikely Story of Moishe Rosen and the Founding of Jews for Jesus. Thomas Nelson 2012, ISBN 978-1-59555-491-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Margalit Fox: Moishe Rosen Dies at 78; Founder of Jews for Jesus. In: The New York Times. May 22, 2010, accessed March 19, 2013 .
  2. ^ Moishe Rosen, William Proctor: Jews for Jesus. Fleming H. Revell, Old Tappan, NJ 1974, p. 21, quote: “Rosen sums up his religious training by saying, 'My father's belief - religion is a racket '.”
  3. ↑ Moishe Rosen. NNDB, accessed March 19, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Ruth Tucker: Remembering Moishe Rosen. Obituary. In: Christianity Today. May 21, 2010, accessed March 19, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Elaine Woo: Moishe Rosen dies at 78; founder of Jews for Jesus. In: Los Angeles Times. May 23, 2010, accessed March 19, 2013 .
  6. ↑ a b c Art Toalston: Jews for Jesus founder this. May 20, 2010, archived from the original on November 9, 2011 ; accessed on November 9, 2011 .
  7. ^ Randall Herbert Balmer: Rosen, Martin Meyer "Moishe" . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . 2nd Edition. Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 978-1-932792-04-1 , pp. 592 (English, online (edition 2002, p. 497) [accessed on March 19, 2013]).
  8. ↑ Susan Perlman: Tribute to Moishe Rosen . In: Jim Congdon (ed.): Jews and the Gospel at the End of History: A Tribute to Moishe Rosen . Kregel Academic, Grand Rapids MI 2009, ISBN 978-0-8254-2934-7 ( online [accessed March 19, 2013]).
  9. ↑ Emma Brown: Moishe Rosen, 78; founded evangelistic group Jews for Jesus. In: The Washington Post. May 21, 2010, accessed March 19, 2013 .

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personal data
SURNAME Roses, Moishe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosen, Martin Meyer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American missionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City (Missouri)
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 2010
Place of death San Francisco