• “Rabbi Young is a patient teacher with a great deal of creativity…. He is very skilled at community building. As a rabbi he is able to combine the ancient texts of Judaism with the newer, and to many just as important, texts of popular culture.“

    – Rabbi Batsheva Appel, Park City, UT

  • "When I first met Rabbi Young, we bonded fairly quickly over our love of Jewish values and Jewish history that can be found in everyday pop culture. It's wonderful that he is not ashamed to be his whole self and that he puts everything about his personality into his teachings as a rabbi and as a friend. I love his out of the box thinking, his kindness, and his humor. His congregants and students are very lucky to have such a person as their rabbi."

    – Barak Malkin, Host, “Torah Smash!”

  • "Rabbi Young is a thoughtful, engaging, energetic rabbi. He loves to explore Judaism through different avenues including the use of pop culture and comic books. He has a great sense of humor and a compassionate soul. When you spend time with him, you feel like the most important person in the world. Rabbi Young loves using music and Jewish spiritual elements to help members of the community connect with their Judaism in deeper, more meaningful and soulful ways. At the end of any experience, you will leave with a smile on your face, glad to have spent the time with him."

    – Rabbi Benjamin Sharff, Omaha, NE

  • “Rabbi Young amazed our congregation with his knowledge of popular culture and relating it to Jewish texts when he came to us with his Reel Judaism class. He inspired deep conversations and made us all feel like we had important insights to offer. We have had him teach our congregation twice and look forward to a third time.”

    - Rabbi Stephen Wise, Shaarei-Beth El Congregation, Toronto

  • "I am thankful for the holy day I experienced this week. The Friday evening service at Congregation B'nai Tzedek gave me hope for the future, as I witnessed the most wonderful ruach of 250 NFTY SoCal kids--led by extremely talented song leaders and eloquent high school students. Thank you to Rabbi Young for envisioning and leading this significant Social Action weekend for the youth of our region."

    Rabbi Stephen Einstein, Founding Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation B’nai Tzedek, Fountain Valley, CA