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About the Author

Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

Tzvi Gluckin lectures extensively on a wide range of Jewish related topics. He is the author of four books including: Everything You Want Is Really Jewish, Discover This, and Knee Deep in the Funk: Understanding the Connection Between Spirituality and Music. He served in the Israeli Army, holds a B.M. in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music, and is currently the director of Vechulai, an innovative Jewish think tank in Boston. For more information, visit his website at gluckin.com/.

How to Spell Hanukkah

How to Spell Hanukkah

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

Hanukkah is the only holiday that freaks out your spell check. And that confusion is deeper than you think.


Avoiding Life's Freakouts

Avoiding Life's Freakouts

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

Thinking about the meaning of life.


Breakfast with Tzvi: Black Sabbath

Breakfast with Tzvi: Black Sabbath

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

A lesson for life from the heavy metal world of rock n roll.


The Torah’s PIN Number

The Torah’s PIN Number

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

Identifying information that only the author knows.


Breakfast with Tzvi: Shwarma!

Breakfast with Tzvi: Shwarma!

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

Living with the awareness of a connoisseur.


Breakfast with Tzvi: Volunteering

Breakfast with Tzvi: Volunteering

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

I got totally wiped out, and loved it.


How to Say Thank You

How to Say Thank You

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

It's all in the details.


Breakfast with Tzvi: Winning the Race

Breakfast with Tzvi: Winning the Race

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

Who's the real champion in life?


Radical Jews

Radical Jews

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

The New Jews are really the Old Jews.


Beyond the Rules

Beyond the Rules

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

How Judaism is a vehicle for spiritual self-expression.


Marriage: For Women Only

Marriage: For Women Only

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

How to make your husband feel like he's your knight in shining armor.


Marriage: For Men Only

Marriage: For Men Only

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

A step-by-step survival guide.


Revolutionary Shofar

Revolutionary Shofar

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

Being a Jew means being part of the counter-culture.


Hope, Jews, and the Boston Red Sox

Hope, Jews, and the Boston Red Sox

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

Years of heartbreak, disaster, close-calls, cosmic blunders -- and the people still had hope and hung on.


Shwarma: A Love Story

Shwarma: A Love Story

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

Sometimes a person needs to meditate and think about things. Most of the time he just needs to eat something greasy.


Jazz and the Abstract Truth

Jazz and the Abstract Truth

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

A story of one man's spiritual journey that took some unusual twists and turns -- jazz studies, African drumming, pretending to be Malcolm X.


Knee Deep

Knee Deep

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

When playing in a band produces a high that never lasts, one is forced to look elsewhere for fulfillment. But how can Judaism compare to Fuzzy Walter?


Lost in Berlin

Lost in Berlin

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

Deiter turned Ben on to German beer. They were having an amazing time. Until Ben got lost with no money and no map...


Bad Attitude: A True Story For Yom Kippur

Bad Attitude: A True Story For Yom Kippur

by Rabbi Tzvi Gluckin

"My career was still stuck in neutral. I wasn't working. I wasn't doing anything to get things going either, except blaming my roomate for ruining my life with his success."


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