Berlin's Jewish Museum has cancelled a concert by a Jewish pianist after it was discovered he was planning to use to event to spread his missionary message. The pianist, Sam Rotman, defines himself as an orthodox Jew who believes in Christianity, and he has used his piano concerts to convey his religious transformation.
The concert was arranged at the museum by a missionary congregation that calls itself Beit Sar Shalom. "After we discovered this and saw that the European Initiative [a missionary group] had advertised this as such on their Web site, we decided not to offer the Jewish Museum as a location for the event," museum officials told the European Jewish Press.
The Israeli embassy in Germany also was posted as a sponsor of the event, but embassy officials said they assumed the concert was routine because the Jewish Museum's co-sponsored it.