David Singer
Limmud North America
National Director
Rabbi David Singer serves as National Director of Limmud North America.
Previously the Executive Director of UC San Diego Hillel, David oversaw a period of exponential growth in the organization’s student-facing programs and brought to positive conclusion a nearly 20-year legal battle to build a permanent facility near the university. David served as Associate Rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in Dallas, where he was the Director and founding rabbi of Makom, a young spiritual community recognized by Slingshot 14-15 as one of the most innovative Jewish organizations in North America.
Named by The Jewish Daily Forward as one of America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis, David is a graduate of Clal’s Clergy Leadership Incubator and Rabbis Without Borders. David studied history at the University of California, Berkeley and is a graduate of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. He is the author of many articles as well as “Yisrael Sheli”, a religious school textbook about Israel.
David is married to Danielle Rugoff, with whom he raises a french bulldog, Jackson.
