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Yes, Isa ibn Maryam (Jesus son of Mary), al-Masih (the Messiah), Kalimatullah (Word of God), and the spirit from God ["Ruh" in Islam, and in Judaism, "Ruah", feminine breath*, "spirit", Shekhinah, Sakina] in Surah Ali 'Imran 3:45 and Surah An-Nisa 4:171. Jewish authors wrote about Jesus primarily in the late 1st century AD, with the most notable early accounts coming from the Romano-Jewish historian Josephus in Rome. Josephus documented Jesus's existence, crucifixion by Pilate, and reputation as a teacher in Antiquities of the Jews (c. 93–94 AD). Jesus later did appear in the Talmud and other, often hostile, sources primarily in the late 1st century AD, i.e. Toledot Yeshu ([The] History of Jesus) which is a Jewish anti-Christian Gospel. And yes, Jesus is nowhere mentioned in Chumash, Five Books of Moses, so: Genesis (Bereshit), Exodus (Shemot), Leviticus (Vayikra), and Numbers (Bamidbar) as it's before the New Testament, Christian bible before the Quran which later adopted Jesus. Also Jews generally do not identify the "suffering servant" in Isaiah 53 with Jesus because traditional Jewish interpretation views the passage as a description of the nation of Israel's collective suffering in exile, not an individual messiah. Jewish theology generally expects a human, often political leader or profound learner who brings world peace, not a divine, dying savior; there's a much different criteria for a Moshiach in Judaism, with a very specific attributes, and they must be of the direct line of David. And no, no gender was originally specified, that was added in much later too. As for Rockefeller??? They have absolutely nothing to do with any academic theology, religion, Abrahamic faiths nor even historical happenings.