Name Tovia Singer Nationality American Role Rabbi | Occupation Rabbi Education Adelphi University Alma mater Yeshiva University Positions Rabbi | |
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Books Let's Get Biblical!: Why Doesn't Judaism Accept the Christian Messiah? | ||
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Tovia Singer (born September 20, 1960) is a rabbi, the founder and director of Outreach Judaism. In Indonesia, Outreach Judaism's program is managed under a local Jewish foundation, Eits Chaim Indonesia Foundation which describes itself as an advocate for the Jewish faith, the Jewish people and the State of Israel for Indonesia.
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- Rabbi tovia singer refuted isaiah 9 6
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- Outreach Judaism
- Other activities
- Works
- Audio and Video Lectures
- References
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Outreach Judaism
Singer is the founder and director of Outreach Judaism, a Jewish counter-missionary organization. It describes itself as "an international organization that responds directly to the issues raised by missionaries and cults, by exploring Judaism in contradistinction to fundamentalist Christianity." Singer cautions regarding congregations that "are designed to appear Jewish, but are actually fundamentalist Christian churches, which use traditional Jewish symbols to lure the most vulnerable of our Jewish people into their ranks." Outreach Judaism was described by J. Gordon Melton in 2002 as an example of "the current state of Jewish counter-cult activity."
Other activities
From 2002 to 2010 Singer hosted The Tovia Singer Show on Arutz Sheva's Israel National Radio. The show launched again in October 2013. The radio show had many interesting guests and Rabbi Tovia Singer interviewed Israeli and American politicians, rabbis, terror victims, authors and many more. Among them who came on the live show with him were: 47th Governor of Texas Rick Perry; American stand-up comedian in political satire, Jackie Mason; former US ambassador for the UN, John R. Bolton; businessman Ronald Lauder; Israeli Ambassador Dore Gold; American-born Israeli historian, author and politician, Michael Oren; Dead Sea Scroll expert Prof. Lawrence Schiffman; American conservative political activist, Alan Keyes; Israeli politician, Danny Danon; former American ambassador and an ardent anti-communist, Jeane Kirkpatrick and many others. Singer was also one of the first who interviewed Walid Shoebat. In 2006, Singer 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? His new expanded edition is a two-volume book that takes a critical look at long-standing Christian charges against the Jewish faith. According to David Brickner it has "grabbed the attention of many evangelicals simply because it has been so widely distributed." A book review by Jewish Values Online described Singer as "a master of his material" and that "his meticulous research and command of Biblical sources is most impressive."
Singer is also a well-known Jewish speaker and debated the head of Jews for Jesus, Jhan Moskowitz and Pastor Paul Humber. In 2014, he debated the Christian New Testament scholar Dr. Craig A. Evans at Houston Baptist University. He has also debated Michael L. Brown on the Sid Roth program. It was the latter debate that brought Singer to his policy today to always bring his own TV and recording crew, and always conduct the debate in front of a live audience. 25 years after the debate, Singer revealed on air what happened between Brown and himself following the debate, and how it led to the absence of a second debate between them.
In June 2014 he discovered a few tribes in West Papua, Indonesia, who came from Peru a few hundred years before. Their ancestors escaped the persecution of Jews by Spain, who followed them to Latin America after the Spanish Expulsion. Until today, the descendants of these Peruvian Jews in Papua have kept some of the Jewish traditions, although most of them had converted into Christianity. Singer spoke about this discovery in an interview with Jeremy Gimpel on Voice of Israel, which was published in Jan 2015. According to this interview, Singer's lecture series in Papua has brought them out of Christianity and returned them back to the Jewish faith. From that point on, Singer moved to Indonesia to volunteer as a Rabbi in the most predominantly Muslim country, where Judaism is not acknowledged as an official religion, to help lost Jewish descendants of Indonesia build their Jewish lives.
Together with Eits Chaim Indonesia Foundation, whose founders are of Dutch Jewish descent, Singer started the only Jewish Center legally acknowledged by the Indonesian Minister of Religious Affairs - Torat Chaim. Since Judaism is not yet a recognized religion in Indonesia, religious freedom for Torat Chaim and its members is guaranteed and protected by the Christian Desk of the Indonesian Religious Affairs Department.