What About Jesus?

Jews do not believe that Jesus was the moshiach. Assuming that he existed,
and assuming that the Christian scriptures are accurate in describing him (both
matters that are debatable), he simply did not fulfill the mission of the moshiach
as Jews have always understood it and as it is described in scripture, cited
above. Jesus did not do any of the things described above, and he did not bring
about the anticipated messianic age.

On the contrary, another Jew born about a century later came far closer to
fulfilling the messianic ideal than Jesus did. His name was Shimeon ben Kosiba,
known as Bar Kochba (son of a star), and he was a charismatic, brilliant, but
brutal warlord. Rabbi Akiba, one of the greatest scholars in Jewish history,
believed that Bar Kochba was the moshiach. Bar Kochba fought a war against
the Roman Empire, catching the Tenth Legion by surprise and retaking
Jerusalem. He resumed sacrifices at the site of the Temple and made plans to
rebuild the Temple. He established a provisional government and began to
issue coins in its name. This is what the Jewish people were looking for in a
moshiach; Jesus clearly does not fit into this mold. Ultimately, however, the
Roman Empire crushed his revolt and killed Bar Kochba. After his death, all
acknowledged that he was not the moshiach.

Throughout Jewish history, there have been many people who have claimed to
be the moshiach, or whose followers have claimed that they were the moshiach:
Shimeon Bar Kochba, Shabbatai Tzvi, Jesus, and many others too numerous
to name. Leo Rosten reports some very entertaining accounts under the
heading False Messiahs in his book, The Joys of Yiddish. But all of these
people died without fulfilling the mission of the moshiach; therefore, none of
them were the moshiach. The moshiach and the Olam Ha-Ba lie in the future,
not in the past.

This information found at this Web site: http://www.jewfaq.org/moshiach.html