At this program Sherman worked in a National Institutes of Health-sponsored laboratory developing neurotransmitter sensors for brain research.

[6] Sherman was a resident at The International House (I-House) on Eleanor Roosevelt College,[7] and studied abroad at The University of Göttingen in Germany.

[8] Sherman has studied at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico and received a fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley.

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.

[19] The Orthodox Union described Sherman as "originally an Evangelical Christian youth minister who began to question religion as a teenager.

"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.