As you look through the Bible there is probably more on this subject than any other. The original church was Jewish. That is, it was made up of Jews that had accepted the Risen Christ. Because of this, you see many books of the New Testament addressed to Jewish people or believers.
Matthew as a gospel, for example, is very much a gospel for the Jew as it tries to to persuade Jews that Jesus is the Messiah. Even Luke though has Jesus himself going through the Law and the Prophets to two on the road to show that Jesus is the Christ and need to suffer these things.
The book of acts shows Paul on many occasions debating in the synagogues and showing through the Old Testament Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.
Finally both Hebrews and James are addressed to Jewish people. Hebrews in particular is trying to persuade Jews not to leave the faith and go back top their former covenant but stay with the covenant in Christ.
What this shows me is that the Jewish question has been with us from the very beginning and that the Bible already has arguments about it. The issue is there anything about modern Judaism that changes things.
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