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Rav Barry is a businessman by day and rabbi by night. He and his family live in Jerusalem.
Biography
Barry (Baruch) Leff is a business executive, teacher, speaker and writer living in the holy city of Jerusalem, Israel.
He is in at least his third major career. For his first career, he worked as a high-tech executive and entrepreneur in California’s Silicon Valley for 20 years. He started a high-tech manufacturing firm and served as CEO as it grew from nothing to 90 employees. He has a PhD in Business Administration from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
Career number 2 was being a congregational rabbi -- going to school (he was ordained by the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles) and serving congregations in Tucson, Vancouver (Canada), and Toledo made for a nearly ten year Sabbatical from the business world.
Career number 3 has Rabbi Leff back in the business world, serving as General Manager of the Israeli subsidiary of a US-based outsourcing company.
In his not very abundant spare time, Rabbi Leff continues rabbinic work such as teaching, speaking, writing, serving on the board of Rabbis for Human Rights, volunteering with the Conservative (Masorti) Movement in Israel. He remains active in ecumenical work.
He's had three careers, but lots of other jobs, including charter pilot, restaurant manager, electronic warfare specialist in the US Army, salesman, and bouncer.
A frequent flier, Rabbi Leff has been to over 60 countries. Born in Germany, he has lived in Thailand, Iran, Canada, the US and Israel.
He's also a flight instructor, and prefers flying the airplane himself, but El Al refuses to cooperate.
Interests
Jewishly: Kabbalah, Mussar, Talmud, Halacha Otherly: Flying, running, skiing, SCUBA Diving, yoga, playing the piano, playing with my kids
Rav Barry:
Please advise me if Rabbi Sizomu was successful in his bid for a Parliament seat in the Feb. 18 election. I have included him in my forthcoming book, FROM JERUSALEM TO THE LION OF JUDAH AND BEYOND: Israel’s Foreign Policy in East Africa Since 1948. If the Rabbi was successful I would like to have that as the last entry of that section of that section of the book.
Thus far, I have not been able to find any reference to what happened. Perhaps you know or know where to find out.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Dr. Steve Carol
Prof. of History (retired)
Associate Producer and Official Historian
MIDDLE EAST RADIO FORUM
http://www.middleeastradioforum.org
Dear Rabbi Leff
My article, “Two-State ‘Solution’: Around the World and in History,” was published in the May issue of Jewish Magazine. The URL of the web site is http://jewishmag.com/. The title of the article is listed in the second column of the home page.
Despite multiple beatings of the dead horse of Mideast peace, I found something new to say. Along the way, I debunked the so-called international community, which holds so-called international law dear.
You’ll find the article interesting.
Stephen Kruger
Attorney at Law
The Conservative has changed a lot. When I was in the ODED program there was just the ‘Beit Cafe’ and the Youth Hostel with the Synagogue next door.
Where can I get more pictures of its changes? Yitshov was the business manager, is he still alive and well? I can see Rabbi Schindler and Rabbi Romm are alive and doing well.