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Feb. 1 audience that came to learn how to counter the
efforts of Christian missionaries was horrified when, instead,
they were greeted by one. Wearing a Jews for Jesus T-shirt,
he attempted to convince them that they, too, could feel the
inner spiritual Judaic peace he experienced.
If the group was shocked by his arrival, they were
speechless when he left the room and returned in a
suit, announcing he really was not a missionary but
Rabbi Tovia Singer, national director of New York-
based Outreach Judaism and the Orthodox rabbi they
had come to hear.
Relieved and stunned to see the rabbi, 50 people in
Congregation Shaarey Zedek B'nai Israel's social hall
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LIEBMAN had been certain they had just encountered a Jews for
DORFMAN Jesus representative. For 45 minutes, they had listened
Staff Writer as he described growing up in a Jewish home, attend-
ing Hebrew school, and how, as a child, his grand-
mother forbade him to even walk past a church. Now,
as a Jew for Jesus, he talked of being a "complete, fulfilled Jew."
Rabbi Singer, posing as a missionary,
had allowed the group to bombard him
with defensive and seemingly unanswer-
able questions. They heard him respond
with words he insisted were from the
Tanach (Bible).
While Rabbi Singer's role-playing pro-
gram is usually presented to teens, as it
was several times over the next few'days,
on this evening he was hosted by Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
Young Adult Division at a program
attended largely by educated, professional
adults.
Many of them were convinced the
Orthodox Rabbi Tovia
"missionary's" quotes, later revealed to be
Singer
poses as a member
fabrications and "vandalizations of text,"
for Jesus.
of
had been real. This made it all the more
frightening when Rabbi Singer revealed
these same methods are tried on the missionary's most targeted group
— college students away from home.
With Christian missionaries infiltrating schools and Jewish Internet
chat rooms, the best defense, Rabbi Singer says, is an offense. "Give
your children a Jewish education," he stresses. "Make certain they
learn the truth and beauty of the Jewish faith." ❑

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