Joining me today is an entrepreneur, the co-founder of Clarity Capital and the author of God in the

Crowd 21st Century Judaism, talking and welcome to the Ruben report.

Thank you, Dave.

So there's a lot that I want to talk to you about here because I mentioned to you right before we

started that most of the conversations that I've had here about religion have come from a Christian

perspective. So adding a Jewish element to this I thought would be interesting.

Your story is kind of fascinating. You're a Jew from Florida and yet your religious awakening

was because of a Christian minister in New England. Am I getting that correct?

Yeah, that's right.

Let's start there.

So I grew up in boarding schools mainly in New Hampshire. So born in Florida and grew up there

until age 10 but then New Hampshire. And I got into Judaism for what I today describes as the

wrong reasons. I don't know if you've seen the picture of the boy in the war so I'll get it

with his hands. Yeah, kind of iconic picture. I saw that when I was 16 years old and immediately

became where there was look at the picture wrong. It's framed in a way that almost begs this juxtaposition

between the boys innocence. He was six or seven years old and jellyic face and the Nazi barbarism.

You can see on the right side of the picture you've got the Nazis and with their guns pointed in his

direction. And then never spoke to me. And I tried to muster anger and hatred for these Nazis. I

couldn't. All I saw was irrelevance. You know, this, you know, I didn't have a good sense of Jewish

history but enough of a sense to realize this is, I was just that generation's manifestation of an

age old phenomenon that just keeps coming back. It was in Iraq during the Farhood, you know, two years

earlier. It was with Russian Kassaks, you know, 30 years earlier. This keeps happening.

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