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• December 30, 2021March 15, 2023 A Bumpy Flight 🤣

  A priest and a rabbi are flying to the Holy Land when the plane experiences heavy turbulence. They struggle to remain calm until the pilot announces that the engines are failing and everybody should brace for a water landing. In the …

• December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 I Couldn’t Meet My Soulmate Until I Met My Soul

  A New Year’s Eve love story that almost wasn’t.

• August 21, 2019August 22, 2019 The Ethical Will of Eleazar of Mayence

  These are the things which my sons and daughters shall do at my request…

• December 6, 2017March 29, 2023 Resistance Leader: Père Jacques

  He made his school a refuge for Jews.

• December 15, 2016August 23, 2019 Christmas In Jerusalem With My Beautiful Mom

  Good Shabbos! Ten years ago today, I toured the Old City of Jerusalem on Christmas Day with Mom. My film “When Do We Eat?” was playing in the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival, and Mom seized the chance to visit Israel with me – something we’d never done together.

• December 12, 2016August 23, 2019 My Soul Is Not A Thing – It’s A Channel

  The night I experienced the reality of my soul.

• December 5, 2016August 23, 2019 The 10th Commandment, Tony Kushner, And Me

  The Ten Commandments prohibit murder with just two words, while the prohibition on coveting includes fifteen. The no-coveting rule is the 10th Commandment – the climax of God’s revelation at Sinai. Why?

• December 5, 2016August 23, 2019 I’m Salvador, And I’m A Complicated Jew

  I was recently asked, “Sal, what kind of Jew are you?” It was not a rhetorical question.

• December 5, 2016August 23, 2019 Getting High In The Holiest Place on Earth

  Israel in general, and Jerusalem in particular, is a tangibly holy place. During my recent journey, I connected with its spiritual energy everywhere I went, and I was changed by it.

• December 5, 2016August 23, 2019 I Saw My Grandmother’s Soul Leave Her Body

  I know the soul exists. Perhaps that’s not a big claim given how often people talk about souls. Despite all that attention, however, it remains difficult to know what the soul is, and how it affects our lives.

• December 5, 2016August 23, 2019 A Peek Behind God’s Curtain

  I have had two deep mystical experiences that redirected my life. Without them, I would not be the man, husband, son, father, writer, director, or Jew I am today.