Author, lecturer, and Middle East expert, Dennis Avi Lipkin, alias Victor Mordecai was born in Flushing, New York, grew up in the greater New York City area and moved to Israel at age 19 in 1968. In 1991, Avi went to study three years at the Jewish Theological Seminary as part of the MA program. Avi has appeared in over 1,000 churches and synagogues in the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, Norway, Finland, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, Russia, Austria, Poland, and Faroe Islands as well as in Israel. He has also appeared on hundreds of radio and TV shows worldwide including FOX & Friends.