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

It is no small feat to tell a story with a foregone conclusion. After all, much of what makes a story engaging is the anticipation of...

There is a war raging in the Middle East. But there is also one being fought on social media. And they both scare me in equal measure. We...

The first time I read The Cuckoo’s Calling, I didn’t know who wrote it. It was the debut novel by an unknown writer, Robert Galbraith,...

“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...

As our societal awareness of mental health has grown, so too has an industry focused on selling us the best ways to take care of our...

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 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...

If at all possible, I like to read the book before I watch the TV or film adaptation of a project. If I see the video content first, I...

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...