Press Release: Media Release for Ruth Rosen TO SPEAK

Ruth Rosen of Jews for Jesus will speak at EAST VALLEY CHURCH, 2827 Flint Ave. San Jose, CA 95148 on March 29, 2013 at 7pm. Pastor John K. Helveston invites all to attend. Jews for Jesus uses creative methods and contemporary issues to present the message that Jesus is the Messiah to Jewish people around the world.

With a last name like Rosen, it isn't difficult to figure out that her parents are Jewish. Yet, both of Rosen's parents became “Jews for Jesus” before she was born. In fact, her father was the founder of the Jews for Jesus organization. That explains her early decision to believe in Jesus. It also refutes the charge that young Jews who accept Christ are either rejecting their Jewishness or rebelling against their parents. “I was taught to appreciate my Jewishness,” Rosen states. “We celebrated the same holidays as my Jewish friends who didn't believe in Jesus. They knew I was Jewish... they also knew I believed in Jesus. As a child, I assumed that what my parents taught me was true, but as a teenager, like most, I went through a period of 'finding my own way.' I found that Y'shua (Jesus) was the way, not merely because my parents had taught me to believe, but because I couldn't deny the difference that only He could make in my life.”

Rosen, a senior with Jews for Jesus, has been with their staff full-time since 1979. She received her biblical training from Biola College in La Mirada, , where she graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biblical Studies. Rosen has participated in intensive Jews for Jesus outreaches called Summer Witnessing Campaigns in New York City and in London, England. She has toured with the Jews for Jesus mobile evangelistic drama team, The New Jerusalem Players, and served with the organization's New York branch for a year. She has served as a member of the Jews for Jesus Council, the organization's strategy planning body, and also as a trustee for the Board of Western Conservative Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon.

In addition to editing the Jews for Jesus Newsletter since 1995, Rosen has written many of their evangelistic "broadside" pamphlets, edited many of their evangelistic booklets, and has edited such books as Future Hope, Between Two Fathers, Christ in the Feast of Tabernacles and Christ in the Feast of Pentecost. Rosen also compiled and edited two books of mini-biographies of Jews who believe in Jesus, Testimonies of Jews Who Believe in Jesus and Jewish Doctors Meet the Great Physician. She penned a workbook called Following Y'shua for Jewish people who have come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah and wish to learn more about their new faith. "I've wanted to be a writer since age five, when I read my first book," Rosen recalls.

Her most recent book is the biography of her father, Called to Controversy: The Unlikely Story of Moishe Rosen and the Founding of Jews for Jesus, published by Thomas Nelson. Rosen resides in the Bay area with her dog, a boxer/Rhodesian ridgeback mix whom she says prevents her from taking herself too seriously. In addition to walks with the dog, Rosen spends a few hours of free time each week writing a young adult fantasy novel.

Jews for Jesus was founded in 1973 by Moishe Rosen, who revolutionized Jewish with his creative approach. Rosen died in May 2010. David Brickner, a fifth-generation Jewish believer in Jesus, has been the organization’s executive director since 1996. Brickner has kept Jews for Jesus on the cutting edge as the ministry has expanded and established branches in fourteen countries, including the United States, Brazil, Israel, Russia, France, and South Africa. “We exist to make the Messiahship of Jesus an unavoidable issue to our Jewish people worldwide,” Brickner states. “There are still a few that haven’t heard of us!”

To Ruth Rosen and other Jews for Jesus staff, the objective evidence of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, and the transformation in their our own lives provide ample evidence that Jesus was who he claimed to be—the Jewish Messiah. Rosen will be happy to answer questions after the presentation. Call 408-238-0231 for more information. There is no admission charge.