With the announcement of the new Third Day/Jars of Clay Christmas Offerings tour and the third year of TobyMac's Winter Wonder Slam. John Reuben and other famous Messianic Jews (people who believe in Jesus but keep Jewish tradition) have announced the new winter tour "John Reuben's Hip-Hopping to Hanukka Tour". This night of music and family fun will feature John Reuben, Mojo (former lead singer of the O.C. Supertones) and hosted by Logan Sekulow of the Logan Show.When we asked Reuben who else will be added to the tour he said that"famous Jewish-Christian celebrities are hard to find. Me, Mojo and Logan are kind of the only ones. I think one guy in Third Day is, but he won't return my calls. Others... we're trying to get some new converts. We're talking to Kevin Max, who is very interested, and we just nailed down Christafari."
Reuben is also an artist for Gotee records which TobyMac founded and is the current president. We asked how he thinks Toby will react, "To be honest I haven't thought about it... He's too big to notice that I'm doing something like this that will compete with his tour... If he finds out it may turn bad. I doubt he'd be to happy with me turning my back on his tour and starting my own thing." Hearing that his boss had no idea about the tour, we of course at DBW went immediately to Toby Mac for a response.
Toby's "people" responded with a letter stating that he is "very upset that one of the artists that was on the first year of Winter Wonder Slam, and on his record label, would betray him.
He is deciding how to pursue his future with John Reuben."Later that day Toby made his first public announcement with an official statement to the press. The letter was read to the press and released immediately to the Associated Press. Toby stated that if " Mr. Reuben goes ahead with his planned tour and does not join on to Winter Wonder Slam '07, he will be released from Gotee and no longer allowed within 50 miles of Franklin, TN".
No word from Reuben yet, but if the tour still happens its sure to be a mitzvah.... LA CHAIM!
