Tsafi Lev
Rabbi Tsafi Lev, is the West Coast CLAL Rabbis Without Borders Student Director. He is also the Rabbinic Director of New Community Jewish High School in West Hills, CA.
Articles by Tsafi Lev
Typhoon Haiyan and the Importance of Giving
“Shall we make Man in our image?” A favorite rabbinic comment of mine reads Genesis 1:25 as a questions rather ...
Corporate Greed Leads to Grandma’s Drug Problem
“Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay a total of $2.2 billion and plead guilty to a misdemeanor in a deal ...
A Whole Lot of Love
What if God took note of every mistake you made and considered it a glorious seed for a profoundly better future? ...
This Yom Kippur Let’s Talk about Syria
I believe that pulpit rabbis have an obligation to frame issues of the day in a moral lens even when ...
A New Way to Prepare for the High Holidays
I’m advocating a new angle on Heshbon Nefesh, ‘soul’s accounting’, that we do in preparation to the High Holidays of ...
Obamacare Cards Up in Smoke
I’m just afraid that history will repeat itself. On October 15th, 1965, the first person to be arrested for burning ...
Empathy for a Convicted Aryan Brotherhood Killer
If we fail to treat others, even the worst among them, humanely, than it is we who ceed the ‘moral ...
The Passion/Compassion of the Jews
Every year on the 9th of Av it’s the same arguments in my head. Should I fast or not? On ...
Overheard but Under Listened
Captain’s log, Stardate July 2112:Fascinating! Unearthing the massive data storage facility here in Utah must be very much like what ...
Silence or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the NSA
Sooner or later, everything you say or do will be recorded. The internet, like an elephant, never forgets. I’m sure ...