in San Francisco and is a Jewish believer in Jesus who came to faith in 1973. He
has served with Jews for Jesus since 1978, beginning with the mobile evangelistic
music team, The Liberated Wailing Wall, and subsequently as a missionary at the
Los Angeles, New York, and Boston branches. He holds an M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School (1978) and a Ph.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary (1993).Rich
is the author of The Messianic Movement and Christ in the Sabbath.
He edited God, Torah, Messiah: The Messianic Jewish Theology of Dr. Louis Goldberg
and co-authored Christ in the Feast of Pentecost with David Brickner. He
has contributed chapters to various scholarly books, conferences papers (Lausanne
Consultation on Jewish Evangelism--North America, Evangelical Theological Society),
and is a frequent contributor to the journal Mishkan. Rich also edits Havurah,
a publication for Jewish believers in Jesus.