Jewish geography: I know Benjy, he is a member of the community here (his dad is one of the chazzanim). He's a really lovely guy, though I can see why his approach to Judaism wouldn't appeal to you. I would classify it as mythopoietic. He often gives drashes like this, where he comes up with a rather novel interpretation of a Torah passage, but it's based in homiletics, not a rigourous presentation of either the real world facts or of rabbinics. He's really good with the teenagers though, really impressive.