What do Jews really think about Christianity? Why don't they accept Jesus? This book, written by an Orthodox Jew living in Israel, answers honestly this 2,000-year-old burning question from a first-person perspective. Unlike other books on Judeo-Christian relations, critical issues are analyzed in detail rather than glossed over. The fact that those Jews contemporary to him were precisely the ones Jesus appealed to (“I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel” ( Matt. 15:24 )), precisely those who saw and heard him, the overwhelming majority of them did not accept the preaching of Jesus – represents a considerable theological difficulty for Christianity. With time, this difficulty only increased due to the indifference of the Jews towards Christian preaching. The American Catholic writer James Carroll wrote: “Their (the Jews–Z.F.) rejection threatened the Christian idea far more profoundly than any pagan rejection. Why, of all people, would Jews be unmoved by the logic, so elaborately displayed in the kerygma, of their own Scriptures? The truth of Jesus Christ is proven by Jewish Scriptures This essential structure of the Christian claim must be confronted anew by Christians. Why? Because Jewish denial of that claim remains a mortal threat. The entire history of conflict between Judaism and Christianity begins here. And the problem abides. The point, however, is that this phenomenon of Jewish indifference to the coming of one announced as the Jewish Messiah called that kerygma into question from the start. This was true despite the fact that, in the decades after Jesus, there were various tellings of his story…” (James Carroll, Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews ). The book not only discusses the difference between the interpretations of biblical prophecy about the Messiah, but also discusses the difference between the actual concept of "Messiah" in Judaism and Christianity, as well as doctrinal, fundamentally incompatible differences between the two religions. The question raised in the title is considered from all possible points of view.