Tovia Singer

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Tovia Singer (born September 20, 1960 ) is a rabbi who founded and leads the organization Outreach Judaism . In Indonesia , the Outreach Judaism program is run by a local Jewish foundation, the Eits Chaim Indonesia Foundation, which sees itself as an advocate for the Jewish faith, the Jewish people and the State of Israel in Indonesia.

Outreach Judaism

Outreach Judaism is a Jewish organization that is directed against the Jewish mission . She describes herself as "an international organization that responds directly to the issues raised by missionaries and religious cults by exploring Judaism and revealing the differences to Christian fundamentalism (by exploring Judaism in contradistinction to fundamentalist Christianity)." Singer warns of communities that are "supposed to be Jewish but are in fact fundamentalist Christian churches that use Jewish symbols to lure the most vulnerable of our Jewish people into their ranks." Outreach Judaism was exemplified in 2002 by J. Gordon Melton as an example of "Describes the current state of Jewish counter-cult activities".

Other activities

Between 2002 and 2010 Singer hosted The Tovia Singer Show on Arutz Scheva National Radio Israel. The show resumed in 2013. There were many interesting guests and Rabbi Tovia Singer interviewed Israeli and US politicians, rabbis, victims of terrorism, writers and many others. Guests included the 47th Texas Governor Rick Perry , cabaret artist Jackie Mason , UN Ambassador John R. Bolton , Ronald Lauder , Michael Oren , Alan Keyes , Danny Danon , Jeane Kirkpatrick and others. Singer was one of the first to interview Walid Shoebat . In 2006, he interviewed Wafa Sultan on the show.

Singer is the author of the book and audio series Let's Get Biblical: Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah? The new, expanded book edition in two volumes contains a detailed critique of traditional Christian allegations against the Jewish faith. One review certifies Singer "to be a master of his field", his thorough research and his mastery of the biblical sources are very impressive.

Singer is known for his public debates, for example with the head of the organization " Jews for Jesus ", Jhan Moskowitz and Pastor Paul Humber. In 2014 he discussed with the Professor of New Testament Dr. Craig A. Evans at Houston Baptist University. He also appeared against Michael L. Brown on the Sid Roth program. He then made serious allegations against Brown and declined further debates with him.

In June 2014, he discovered tribes in West Papua, Indonesia that he believed had fled Peru a few hundred years earlier. Your ancestors are said to have escaped the Spanish Inquisition . These descendants of Jews have preserved some traditions, but mostly converted to Christianity. He was able to lead them back to Judaism. Since then Singer has been working in Indonesia, where Judaism is not officially recognized.

Together with the Eits Chaim Indonesia Foundation , whose founders are of Dutch origin, Singer founded the only state-recognized Jewish center - Torat Chaim . It is supported by the Christian Department of the Indonesian Religious Affairs Office.

Publications

  • Let's Get Biblical 24-part audio series.
  • Tovia Singer: Let's get biblical . Outreach Judaism, Monsey, NY 2001, OCLC 51219849 (English, first edition: 1998).
  • Tovia Singer: Let's Get Biblical . 2nd Edition. RNBN Publishers, 2010, ISBN 978-0-615-34839-1 (English).

Audio and video lectures

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Outreach Judaism LLC
  2. ↑ Yayasan eits Chaim Indonesia
  3. ↑ Michael C. Duke: Messianics pervert Passover at some Houston-area churches. In: Jewish Herald-Voice. April 2, 2009.
  4. ^ About Us , Outreach Judaism website.
  5. ↑ Simon Schoon: Noachides and Converts to Judaism. In:  Jan N. Bremmer ,  Wout Jac. van Bekkum , Arie L. Molendijk. Cultures of Conversions , Peeters Publishers, 2006. ISBN 978-90-429-1753-8 ,  p. 125 .
  6. ^ J. Gordon Melton : The Modern Anti-Cult Movement in Historical Perspective. In Jeffrey Kaplan, Heléne Lööw. The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization ,  Rowman Altamira , 2002. ISBN 978-0-7591-0204-0 , p. 285, note 4.
  7. ↑ Michael Cappi:  A Never Ending War , Trafford Publishing 2007. ISBN 978-1-4251-1567-8 ,  p. 326 .
  8. ^ Rabbi Tovia Singer: Let's Get Biblical: Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah? 2014, ISBN 978-0-9960913-1-2 , outreachjudaism.org
  9. ↑ The Jews and Jesus Auf Jewish Values.
  10. ↑ Is Jesus Prophesied in the Jewish Scriptures? on YouTube 2010
  11. ↑ Is Jesus Prophesied in the Jewish Scriptures? on YouTube 2012
  12. ↑ Is Jesus the Promised Jewish Messiah? on YouTube 2014
  13. ↑ Is Jesus the Jewish Messiah? on YouTube 1991
  14. ↑ Rabbi Tovia Singer Answers Why He Never Debated Michael Brown Again (from 2:02:07) on YouTube 2016
  15. ↑ Rabbi Tovia Singer: 100's of Lost Jews in Muslim Indonesia on YouTube 2014
  16. ↑ Yayasan eits Chaim Indonesia
  17. ^ Rabbi Yosef Serebryanski: Jews in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. In: The Jewish Press. August 28, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Singer, Tovia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 20th September 1960