About Me

Check out examples of my Visual Midrash below!

• Internationally traveled and photographed countries Including Africa, Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Baltic and Black Sea countries, Brazil, Cambodia, Cuba, Easter Island, Egypt and European countries, India, Japan and Vietnam. Within the US: Santa Fe, West Texas, White Sands, The Lightning Field. Led organization development, business process improvement and strategic planning workshops in corporate, state government and non-profit settings. • Managed multi-million-dollar information technology projects within global corporate and state agency settings. • Provided independent verification and validation consulting for multi-million-dollar information technology projects including state taxation and election systems. • Led staff development, communications, family life, personal growth and life cycle, as well as Biblical theme- based psychodrama workshops in a variety of settings. • Developed and presented a variety of multi-media experiential events. • As a Rabbi, led congregations as well as local and regional educational organizations. • Led leadership development programs and communal fundraising campaigns.

Examples of my exploration of Visual Midrash appear below:


“Finding God through Photography”

We who are created in the “Tzelem” or image of God find meaning through “Tzelum” or photography.

While lions appear in scriptures, penguins do not, yet through photography we expand our  awareness, our imagination, our possibilities as God’s co-creators

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Media and Judaism

What you are experiencing (in the Beginning) right now (God) is what McLuhan (created the Heaven) talks (and the earth.) about (The earth) when he says that electric circuitry (was unformed and void) is an extension of the (and darkness was upon the) central (face of the deep) nervous system. We get and are capable (and the spirit of God hovered over the) of receiving (face of the waters) a great deal of (and God said) information, (“Let there be light”) much of which is dealt with (and there was light) unconsciously.

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“Every 7th Day”

Experiencing the transition to Shabbat via a visual Midrash on the Beatles “Its been a hard days night”

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Architecture in the service of the sacred

Ya’kov Agam and Midcentury Modernism Architecture contribute to a synagogue’s sacred space.

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