Roy Moore’s ‘Jewish lawyer’ believes in Jesus Christ

Former GOP Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore’s wife has revealed the identity of the couple’s “Jewish attorney,” an Alabama attorney who converted to Christianity in his 30s.

“We read where we were against Jews — even calling us Nazis,” Moore’s wife, Kayla, told AL.com. “We have a Jewish lawyer working for us in our firm — Martin Wishnatsky. Judge hired him while chief justice, then I hired him at the Foundation.”

Wishnatsky told AL.com that he was hired in 2012 by Roy Moore as a full-time clerk when Moore was reelected to the state Supreme Court. When Roy Moore was removed from the court in 2016, Wishnatsky went on to work for the Moores’s foundation, the Foundation for Moral Law.

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Wishnatsky told the news organization that he grew up Jewish, attending Hebrew school and going through a bar mitzvah. He said he considered his family secular, ethnic Jews.

“My background is 100 percent Jewish,” Wishnatsky said. “My grandparents immigrated from Eastern Europe and came through Ellis Island. My parents were born in Brooklyn during World War I. There were no manifestations of faith; we were Jewish, that’s why we went to synagogue and not a church. It was just an ethnic characteristic.”

He told AL.com that he accepted Christ in his 30s.

“I had an experience of the reality of God at 33,” Wishnatsky said. “I knew God was real but I wasn’t sure who he was.”

“I’m a Messianic Jew,” he continued. “That’s the term they use for a Jewish person who has accepted Christ.”

Wishnatsky now attends Centerpoint Fellowship Church, an evangelical church in Prattville, Ala., and says he identifies as “both” a Jew and a Christian.

“You’re a Jewish person that’s accepted Christ. Jesus was a Jew. Most Jews are not religious. That’s how I grew up,” he told AL.com. “There are the Orthodox who are very serious about Judaism. It’s about whether you think God is real, and whether you’re accountable to him. It’s whether you take God seriously. It took me quite a few years to take God seriously.”

In the final days of the contentious Alabama special election, Roy Moore’s wife, Kayla Moore, cited the couple’s “Jewish attorney” while accusing the media of portraying the couple as “anti-Semitic.”

Kayla Moore’s revelation comes after multiple reports suggested that Richard Jaffe, who called himself a “passionate supporter” of new Alabama Sen. Doug Jones (D), was the lawyer in question.