Excerpt from Truth:
For Christians who insist that the resurrection be physical and not spiritual, literal and not metaphorical, a challenge I often employ is that Orthodox Jews do not accept it as real, neither in Jesus’ time nor in ours. Think about that: Jews believe in the same God as Christians. They accept the Old Testament of the Bible, as Christians do. They even believe in the Messiah. They just don’t think the 1st-century preacher was him.
The reason Jews don’t believe Jesus was the Messiah is that they were expecting a Royal Monarch descended from King David, a great warrior who would rescue and redeem them from the oppressive Roman rule under which they were subjugated, not the son of an impoverished carpenter from Nazareth. Jewish rabbis, scholars, philosophers, and historians all know the arguments for the resurrection as well as Christian apologists and theologians making the arguments, and yet they still reject them.
Why? If the arguments and evidence for the resurrection is so solid, in time the community most expert in that field would reach a consensus about it. They haven’t. Christians believe it. Traditional Judaism does not. That’s revealing.