Of course, if Jesus is the son of God, as Christians assert, then it matters not whether he was the longed-for messiah. However, even this claim must be taken on faith, and faith alone.
If you wish to read a Jewish rebuttal for the claim that Jesus is the Messiah, please see the Related Questions linked to below.
Yes - Jesus was a jew. The Old Testament of the bible is from Jewish scriptures.
The Old Testament scriptures came first, then Jesus, and then the New Testament scriptures were written after his death and resurrection.
In the Old Testament a Messiah was promised by God to come into the world. In the New Testament the Messiah arrives, that Messiah is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. This is what basically links the Old Testament to the New Testament.
Christians believe Jesus is the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. Jews do not.
That Jesus is the promised Messiah, as prophesied in the Old Testament. The Gospel was written for a largely Jewish audience.
the old testament is all of the scriptures of the hebrew or jewish religon, during jesus' time the four gospels (mathew,mark,luke and john) were all written as accounts of jesus' life. the old and new testaments are the scriptures of christianity, so jewish beliefs use only the old testament, and the new testament was written and combined with the old testament during jesus' time. there is no exact date for when they were combined, but around and not to far off of the time of jesus' death is about when.
Christians believe that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah. Jews disagree.
JESUS was the messiah that was promised in the old testament. He was the fulfillment of old testament prophecy.
The Jews do not recognize Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, they are still waiting for the Messiah to come.
Judaism is the source of most of The Bible (the Christians call the Jewish-accepted portions "the Old Testament"), the origin of the concept of Messiah is from Judaism, both are monotheistic religions, and Jesus himself was Jewish and was learned of Jewish traditions and laws--he was a rabbi.
No, the Jewish Cannon of their scriptures (commonly referred to as the "Old Testament") had closed roughly 400 years before Jesus (the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew name Jeshua, which is used in the Old Testament to refer to the follower of Moses that brought the Jews into Canaan) was born. The followers of Jesus recorded stories of his teachings, life, death, resurrection, and ascension in the books that were ultimately collected into the New Testament. Most Jews reject Jesus as a Messiah (transliterate into Greek as Christ) and the New Testament. The Catholic Church closed the Christian Cannon of the New Testament about 400 years after Jesus died.
The Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.