Doug Brook will deliver the Shabbat morning sermon : "Is nothing sacred anymore?"
After kiddush lunch, he will teach a class: What is Trope and Where did it come from?

Doug Brook is finishing his final semester at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York toward a graduate degree in Jewish education. He’s taught at Congregation Sinai since 2009, and at several other synagogues across the country including Congregation Beth David in Saratoga. He’s taught at the APJCC in Los Gatos, where he co-founded and directed Theatre Chevruta throughout its five seasons, 2013-2017. Since 1996, he’s been the humor columnist for Southern Jewish Life magazine, and some of the Judaic plays he’s written include Original Synergy, Big Fish Story, Murder of the First, and Lot in Life. An Alabama native, he’s the product of mixing Young Judea, Kadima, USY, AZA, Camp Ramah (New England), and AEPi for which he was named the international outstanding president. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees in writing and theatre from Carnegie Mellon University and, by day, he’s in senior management at a cybersecurity startup and is executive director of Silicon Valley Shakespeare.

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