I love teaching at the intersection of sacred text, popular culture, music, and the questions people actually carry with them. My work draws on Jewish tradition, literature, music, myth, and lived experience to explore belonging, meaning, doubt, creativity, leadership, and the search for a life that matters.

Whether I’m teaching a text, leading a conversation, telling a story, or bringing music into the room, I’m interested in the same thing: creating the conditions for people to encounter old questions in new ways—and one another more deeply.

I work with synagogues, Jewish communities, universities, and other organizations to create residencies built around learning, music, conversation, spirituality, and connection.

A residency might unfold over a Shabbat, a weekend, or several days, and can include text study, talks and conversations, musical programs, workshops, and informal gatherings. Rather than bringing a fixed package, I work with each community to build an experience around its people, interests, and questions.

The goal is not simply to deliver a series of programs. It is to create a shared experience—one that opens up conversation, deepens relationships, and leaves something behind after the weekend is over.

Belonging: Finding Our Way Home
What does it mean to belong—to a family, a community, a tradition, a place, or even to ourselves? Drawing on Jewish texts, contemporary culture, and personal story, this program explores one of the defining human questions of our time.

Doubt, Faith & the Search for Meaning
What if doubt isn't the enemy of faith but one of its essential companions? Through Jewish texts, modern thought, and conversation, we explore uncertainty not as something to eliminate, but as a source of humility, curiosity, and spiritual depth.

Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law
An exploration of Dylan’s music as a body of spiritual and moral inquiry—prophecy and doubt, love and betrayal, justice and mercy, God and the human condition. This can range from an intimate text-and-song session to a full musical program.

Meaning, Vocation & the Lives We Build
How do we understand the twists, failures, ambitions, accidents, and reinventions that make up a life? Drawing on Jewish wisdom, Viktor Frankl, literature, and lived experience, this program explores calling, purpose, work, and what it means to make a meaningful life.

The Spiritual Wisdom of Popular Music
What can the music we love teach us about how to live? From the Beatles and Joni Mitchell to Prince, Beyoncé, and Kendrick Lamar, popular music becomes a doorway into questions of love, holiness, justice, identity, joy, darkness, and transcendence.

Custom Learning & Conversations
Every community has its own questions. I also develop teaching around a community's particular moment—from leadership and institutional change to Jewish identity, creativity, Israel, sacred text, music, and contemporary culture.