The following is a sermon I delivered at Valley Temple on Friday evening, December 29th, 2023. In my work with wedding couples, I’ve...

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones.” Winston Churchill is quoted as saying this in 1947. You’d...

“But what if it had been your family?” This is the question people always seem to ask when discussing the death penalty. What if YOU were...

Sometimes a song hits you in just the right moment. The weather might have the perfect conditions, or the feelings of the day might...

“You stand on the shoulders of giants.” This was a popular refrain in my youth group growing up, and I believed it. I looked up to and...

There are a LOT of self-help books out there. This does beg the question: if the books are any good, why do we need so many? It seems...

The trailer for the new Netflix movie Luckiest Girl Alive caught my attention. Mila Kunis is a favorite of mine, and a suspenseful drama...

The following is a sermon delivered on April 21st, 2023 at the Valley Temple in Wyoming, Ohio. This week’s Torah portion,...

Life’s too short to read bad books. And the old adage about “don’t judge a book by its cover” is a lot of phooey. Because you can usually...

The sports industry has been surprisingly puzzling in the past decade or so. During a period of entertainment innovation, you would think...

Everything starts from a place of relationships. This is true in every industry, but is perhaps most often ignored in a business setting....

Books on personal growth are as popular as ever, likely because it is pretty darn difficult to be a human being in the modern world....

Good Enough wasn’t really written for me. I’ve read books by Kate Bowler before, and I liked them enough to read this, no questions...

Ritual is an essential component of Judaism. Zionist essayist Ahad Ha’am famously said “more than Israel has kept Shabbat, Shabbat has...

There’s a lot going on in the world. Sometimes you want the security of reading a book with the certainty that everything is going to be...

I so badly wanted to like this book. In fact, I am, in many ways, trying to WRITE this book. But Why Do Jewish: A Manifesto for 21st...

Jacob is the last of our major patriarchs in Judaism, and his death closes the book of Genesis. Throughout his story, we see a...

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America was an uncomfortable book to read. And that was kind of the point. I’ve read some of...

We’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but are we allowed to judge a book by its title? Because We Need New Stories, by Nesrine...

“Watson struggles in season debut.” That was the notification I got this weekend from the NFL. I wouldn’t have known any other way. I...