Joseph J. Sherman

Joseph J. Sherman
Rabbi Shlomo Amar (right) with Joseph J. Sherman in Jerusalem
Born 1980
Anaheim, California
Alma mater University of California, San Diego
École supérieure de commerce de Marseille-Provence
Occupation Businessperson, artist, public speaker, and scholar

Joseph Joel (Yosef Yehudah) Sherman (born 1980) is an American marketing strategist and artist.[1] Sherman is a convert to Judaism.[2][3][4] He lectures about his conversion and about Torah.[1]

Early life

Sherman was born in Anaheim, California, and was raised in Riverside, California. At the age of 10 he spoke at a public hearing regarding noise pollution at Riverside Municipal Airport. Sherman wrote and delivered his own speech to city council members explaining that it was hard to do homework with airplanes constantly flying overhead, and that more airplanes would make studying more difficult. At the age of 11. he was team captain of his elementary school's KidQuiz team, a Saturday morning children's game show on CBS2 in Los Angeles. At the age of 16 he was recruited by the University of California to participate in a young scientists research program. At this program Sherman worked in a National Institutes of Health-sponsored laboratory developing neurotransmitter sensors for brain research.[5][6]

Education

Sherman studied at The University of California, San Diego and served on the UCSD Diversity Council.[7] Sherman studied under anthropologist Charles L. Briggs[8] He lectured about The Legitimization of Terrorism.[9] Sherman was a resident at The International House (I-House) on Eleanor Roosevelt College,[10] and studied abroad at The University of Göttingen in Germany.[11]

Sherman completed his MBA at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Marseille-Provence (KEDGE Business School) in Marseille, France.[12][13] He wrote a book on Euro-Mediterranean Corporate Financial Structures based on his research at Kedge.[14] He was an eMBA exchange student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.[15]

Religion

Listening to him talk about his studies at a yeshiva in Jerusalem, about his life as a Jew, about God, it is hard to believe that only a few short years ago he was a practicing Christian who although not officially ordained, held a position as a lay minister in North Carolina where he lived. His transformation did not happen overnight, but took years of soul-searching and study.

-The Jerusalem Post, about Sherman's conversion.

Sherman is a convert to Judaism. He has been featured in Israeli media about his conversion experience, and about his artwork. Mishpacha magazine describes how people could not believe that the man in a beard, peyot, and traditional long black coat was once the gentile buying the chametz from Jerusalem's Beth Din before Passover.[16] The Orthodox Union described Sherman as "originally an Evangelical Christian youth minister who began to question religion as a teenager. Follow his journey around the world where he studied neuroscience and business until today settled in Israel as a Jew heavily involved in Israel advocacy".[17][18][19]

Jerusalem Online News, a subsidiary of Channel 2, describes how Sherman's art is inspired by Judaism. "As part of the Kotel (Western Wall) series, Sherman is painting doves of peace and other beautiful birds flying over the skyline of the Kotel... Sherman artistically portrays the vibrant celebrations that occur at Jewish weddings that take place beside the remnants of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem."[20]

Sherman has donated paintings in memory of The Righteous Among the Nations to The Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in the State of Israel, The Serbian Embassy in Israel, The Slovak Embassy in Israel, The Embassy of Belgium in Israel, The Embassy of Hungary in Tel-Aviv, and The Austrian Cultural Forum Tel Aviv.[21][22][23][24][25][26]

Business career

Sherman has been profiled and cited for his business advice by The Harvard Business Review, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Inc. Magazine.[27][28][29][30][31] Sherman has written for The Jerusalem Post, Engadget, and The Times of Israel.[32][33][34][35][36]

References

  1. 1 2 The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature. United Kingdom: European Humanities Research Centre. 2003. ISBN 9781900755771.
  2. ↑ Aryeh Ehrlich; Rachel Ginsberg (May 19, 2015). "All Roads Lead to Home". Mishpacha Magazine.
  3. ↑ Deutsch, Gloria. "Yearning for acceptance". Features (July 26, 2012). Jerusalem Post.
  4. ↑ Gray, Julie (February 15, 2015). "A Country Full of Characters". Jerusalem. The Times of Israel. The moment I met Joseph Sherman, I knew I had met yet another Israeli with a story. A real character. Joseph, who lives in Jerusalem, is a management consultant. He is also a Hasidic Jew from Southern California. His parents are fundamental Christians. Joseph, you see, is an Orthodox convert. He also has a Masters Degree in Corporate Finance that he earned at the Kedge Business School, in Marseille, France. Joseph is also an artist. He's been painting, he explained, since he was in college. While he was in business school, he traveled all over the world and drank in the art he saw in museums and in public spaces.
  5. ↑ Bandoim, Lana (January 28, 2015). "Using art to understand cancer". Hickory, NC: Hareyan Publishing. EMax Health. Joseph J. Sherman, who is an abstract expressionist painter, is influenced by Vincent van Gogh, Marc Chagall, Joan Mitchell and Jackson Pollock. His artwork reveals the conscious and subconscious levels of the human mind. His experience at the age of 16 at the University of California Riverside also influences his art. Sherman had the opportunity to work with the National Institutes of Health on a neurotransmitter sensor project.
  6. ↑ Widjaya, Ivan (March 2, 2015). "Exclusive Q&A with Joseph J. Sherman on Public Speaking Mastery". Indonesia.
  7. ↑ "UCSD CAMPUS NOTICE: SUBJECT: UCSD Diversity Council 2000–01". San Diego, California. OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR. October 12, 2000.
  8. ↑ Briggs, Charles L; Carla, Mantini-Briggs (2003). Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare. University of California Press. p. 352. ISBN 0-520-23031-0.
  9. ↑ "The Cat in the Hat Gets Whacked: A Discourse on the Legitimization of Terrorism". La Jolla, California: University of California, San Diego. Cross Cultural Center. March 2, 2002. Archived from the original on February 4, 2015.
  10. ↑ Derbovesplan, Elivra (March 2, 2015). "How the I-House Changed my Life". None.
  11. ↑ Böhm, Christiane (August 11, 2017). "Hervorragendes Netzwerk". Göttinger Tageblatt. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  12. ↑ Chhetry, Anjan; Sherman, Joseph (April 20, 2009). "New Star and Blue Bio Negotiation: Merger and Acquisition Scenario". Social Science Research Network. Marseille, France: Social Science Electronic Publishing (Working Paper Series). doi:10.2139/ssrn.1392082. SSRN 1392082.
  13. ↑ Issamar, Ginzberg (April 9, 2012). "Tips for Entrepreneurs: The emperor's new clothes". The Jerusalem Post. During this time, I met an expert in Azerbaijani oil fields named Joseph Sherman, who has an MBA from Ecole de Management de Marseille.
  14. ↑ Sherman, Joseph. Euro-Mediterranean Corporate Financial Structures: Can the corporate financial structure create value to the corporation?. Marseille, France: Kedge Business School Research. p. 174. ISBN 151716186X.
  15. ↑ Rosenberg, C. (May 17, 2017). "Board Games in the Boardroom". Mishpacha Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  16. ↑ Ariey Ariley (May 29, 2014). "Yosef the Holy Avreich" (in Hebrew). Jerusalem, Israel: Mishpacha Magazine. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  17. ↑ "Intelligently and Enthusiastically Crowning Hashem". The Seymour J. Abrams Jerusalem World Center, headquarters of OU Israel. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  18. ↑ @OHR (March 21, 2015). "Yosef Yehudah Sherman". Jerusalem, Israel. Ohr Somayach International.
  19. ↑ Hirsch, Tziyona (October 2016). "A Heroic Soul: Yosef Yehuda Sherman". The Jewish Press.
  20. ↑ Avraham, Rachel (October 22, 2013). "Haredi Jerusalemite views the Kotel as a piece of art". Channel 2 News. Jerusalem Online News.
  21. ↑ "From California to The Land of Israel" (in Yiddish) (34). Yiddish Tribune. June 10, 2015.
  22. ↑ Ginzberg, Issamar (July 8, 2015). "Two Dining Room Walls with Art". Hamodia Newspaper.
  23. ↑ "Donation of paintings, honouring Croatia's Righteous". Tel Aviv, Israel. March 9, 2015.
  24. ↑ "Holocaust Art Institute gift honors Righteous Serbs". Belgrade, Serbia. B92. October 29, 2015.
  25. ↑ "Donation of The Holocaust Art Institute in the honour of Righteous Serbs". Embassy of the Republic of Serbia to the State of Israel. Tel Aviv: Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
  26. ↑ "Поклон Института за уметност Холокауста у знак сећања на Србе праведнике". Амбасада Републике Србије у држави Израел Embassy of The Republic of Serbia in the State of Israel (in Serbian). Министарство спољних послова Републике Србије Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
  27. ↑ Economy, Peter (May 22, 2015). "Men Are from Wikipedia and Women Are from Pinterest". Inc.com.
  28. ↑ Economy, Peter. "4 Powerful Business Lessons from Michelangelo's David". Inc.com.
  29. ↑ TRIGGS-MATTHEWS, TRACY (July 14, 2011). "Impact at Scale: An Interview with Joseph Joel Sherman and Sam Imende". Kenan–Flagler Business School i. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  30. ↑ Knight, Rebecca (September 26, 2016). "Should You Talk About Politics at Work?". Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business Publishing.
  31. ↑ "6 Social Media Mistakes Businesses Should Avoid - MBAPrograms.org". www.mbaprograms.org. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  32. ↑ Sherman, Joseph (May 13, 2013). "Pure and Simple: Has Strauss Water found the solution that the world needs to find clean drinking water?". The Jerusalem Post.
  33. ↑ Sherman, Joseph J. (July 30, 2013). "High-Tech Aliya: A start-up immigrant shares secrets to success". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  34. ↑ Sherman, Joseph (October 3, 2013). "Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a Facebook match". Jerusalem Post.
  35. ↑ Sherman, Joseph (July 25, 2016). "How the Internet of Things Enhances Our Day-to-Day Lives". Engadget.
  36. ↑ Sherman, Joseph. "The Blogs". The Times of Israel.
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