Rabbi Barry (Baruch) Leff

Rav Barry is a businessman by day and rabbi by night. He and his family live in Jerusalem.

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.