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

One Small PRAYvor

Prayer is a very personal and private thing. In fact, to be honest to a fault, let me say that ...

Taking the Bat out of Batman

“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary.”–Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes.In the up coming, and probably ...

The Love/Hate of Obamacare

 A few posts ago, while the Supreme Court was still hearing arguments on the legality of the Healthcare Act, I ...

My Cup Runneth Over

According to the NY1-Marist poll, 53% of New Yorkers believe that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest proposal is a ...

JP Morgan, a Prostitute, and the Talmud

…And to be clear, in the following analogy, Chase is the prostitute.At a time when two-income families struggle to make ...

The Supreme Court and the Health Care Act – A Populist Response

   I can’t seem to decide, do I want to move America “Forward” or do I “Believe in America”?  I’m ...

Puppy Love and College

I recently made my first exploratory college visit with my high school aged son.  My initial reaction during the tour ...

Teaching the Four Sons in the 21st Century

We had reached one of those loaded moments in our family Passover seder where all my acumen as a parent, ...

Occupy Wall Street Talmudically Explained

There has been a desire to pin down the central complaint of the 99%, which the Occupy Wall Street organizers ...

A Data-Driven Eulogy for a Data-Driven Life

“Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of ...