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Author of 31 books, including the best-seller Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy (1999) and Kosher Jesus (2012)

Hosted two seasons of the reality television series Shalom in the Home on TLC

Newsweek named him one of the 10 most influential rabbis in the United States, and The Jerusalem Post named him one of the fifty most influential rabbis in the world

Attended a Chabad-Lubavitch camp and fell in love with Judaism

The Lubavitcher Rebbe became his patron, and at age 13, he joined the Chabad movement (a Hasidic philosophy that traces back 250 years to Lubavitch, Russia)

Served as rabbi to Oxford University's students for 11 years

Founded the Oxford University L'Chaim Society (in Hebrew, L'Chaim means "To Life"), and the society grew to be the second-biggest student organization ever in Oxford, with a membership that included over 5,000 non-Jews