Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, author of Kosher Sex, has angered some Orthodox rabbis with his latest attempt at pop-rabbinic culture: Kosher Jesus, a best-selling book that paints the history of Jesus in a Jewish context.
In 1925, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise caused a maelstrom with a sermon about Jesus, based on what sounds like a Hebrew-language predecessor to Kosher Jesus.
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