Since his ordination by a Reform bet din in 1995, Michael Shevack has been heavily involved in inter-religious work around the world. He’s been a guest lecturer at Boston University, New York University, the University of Madrid, the University of Milan, Padova and Venice. He’s appeared on PBS and numerous coast-to-coast radio shows.

He was appointed Director of Communications at the Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding at Sacred Heart University, in Bridgeport Connecticut. Recently, he was appointed adjunct professor in the School of Social Welfare at Stony Brook University (S.U.N.Y.) where he taught spirituality and comparative religion on the graduate level.

Rabbi Shevack has been active in the “new age” community as well, an invited speaker at the Whole Life Expo, as well as Dean of All-Faiths Seminary in New York, an experiment in inter-religious training and ordination.

Rabbi Shevack is the author/co-author of 5 books. Stupid Ways, Smart Ways to Think about God (Liguori); Our Age. The Historic New Era of Christian-Jewish Understanding (Triumph), honored with a forward by the late John Cardinal O’Connor of the Archdiocese of New York; Adam and Eve,

Marriage Secrets from the Garden of Eden (Paulist, just released in Italy (Marietti, Milan); Dialogo Fraterno (Marietti, Milan). His articles have appeared in numerous magazines.

See: 

www.adamandeveinstitute.com
www.buckscountyfreesynagogue.com
www.universaljudaism.info

Prior to ordination, Rabbi Shevack was a Madison Avenue Creative Director. He wrote and created the campaign “Gillette. The Best a Man Can Get”, still running in 120 countries around the world. His work for Apple Computers won him a silver Lion at Cannes. See, www.intheimage.net

Combining his advertising and marketing, with his passion for religions and worthy non-profits, Rabbi Shevack has worked with AARP, Gateways (Orthodox Jewish), Communion and Liberation (Catholic), United Religions Initiative, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), United Church of Christ, and many other groups, helping them find their true voice.

Shevack lives in Holicong, Pennsylvania, with the rebbetzin, artist Teddy Frank

www.teddyfrank.com  -  and three children, Christian Gabriel, Adam and Zoe.