CJI was established with the vision of becoming a focal point and center for excellence for innovative and impactful initiatives that deliver benefits to Israel and the Jewish world.

Serving as an address for foreign diplomats and dignitaries, international organizations, and Jewish communities who wish to interact directly with Israeli civil society, CJI focuses on impactful activities to facilitate these connections through key initiatives such as the Diplomatic Salon Series, One Team One People, the CJI Fellows program, delegations, and other projects in the fields of education, Israel-diaspora Jewry relations, interfaith dialogue, and combatting antisemitism.

Singer is chairman of Alumot Or, an Israeli philanthropic social organization that promotes and implements excellence programs in schools for children with Autism, disabilities, and at-risk youth.

These programs focus on the student rather than the disability, to develop autonomy, assist with the transition to adulthood, and take a holistic approach that accounts for the child’s environment.

[10] On behalf of the WJC, Singer made a number of policy statements He expressed alarm that companies would profit from surging digital sales of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf; Singer told ABC News that "[w]hile the academic study of Mein Kampf is certainly legitimate, the spike in ebook sales likely comes from neo-Nazis and skinheads idolizing the greatest monster in history," and added: "We think that responsible companies shouldn't profiteer from the sales of hate books, or at least should donate the profits to help the victims of anti-Semitism, racism and other like bigotries.

[21] Robert Singer stepped down as CEO and Executive Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress in July 2019, however remained an advisor to the president of the organization until January 2020.

Between 1976 and 1987, Singer served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), including as senior educational officer,[22] an assignment he said which had allowed him "to gain a tremendous amount of life experience, maturity and perspective.

In an article published in the magazine Jewish Life, he once said that being born into a family of refuseniks in Ukraine created an "unrelenting desire to assist Jews and gentiles with economic and educational development, enabling them to find a way out of the most dire of circumstances."