When I was a first year rabbinical student, I wrote the following in a journal: “My rabbinic mission is to make the simple complicated...

American Jews have long taken great pride in their history of advocacy in the fight against racial injustice. Abraham Joshua Herschel’s...

As human beings, we have grown accustomed to the cycle of time. We find ways to mark significance, to make meaning of the days that roll...

When quarantine began, it seemed as though everyone was re-establishing New Years Resolutions. People wanted to use their newfound “free...

The following is a sermon delivered at Valley Temple in Wyoming, Ohio in 2019. Jewish history, as we know it today, was created by...

The following sermon was given at Valley Temple in Wyoming, Ohio on Friday, August 30th. There is a reason that we read the Torah today...

The following was an editorial written as part of a “Rabbi as Communicator” course in the Spring of 2019. It’s raining and it’s cold....

There is a saying in Judaism that we are never more than 3 days away from Shabbat. Either Shabbat is just a few days away, or was just a...

The following is a Sermon/paper, written for a Mussar course at Hebrew Union College, Oct. 2018. For a long time, the global community...

The following is a sermon delivered on Kol Nidre September 18th, 2018 at Temple B’nai Israel in Parkersburg, West Virginia. I’ve never...

The following is the sermon delivered by Austin at Temple B’Nai Israel in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Erev Rosh Hashanah was his first...

Yom Kippur Sermon delivered at student pulpit in Sandusky, Ohio.

Geared toward high school students, this syllabus attempted to bring Jewish conversations into the world of television watching.

Rosh Hashanah sermon delivered in 2020 at Valley Temple in Wyoming, Ohio