Rabbi Joel Levy

Biography

Rabbi Levy is the Rosh Yeshiva at the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center where he teaches Talmud, Halakha, Tanakh, liturgy and Jewish thought. He was ordained by Rabbi David Hartman z”l in 2000. Rabbi Levy is a past chair of the Program at Limmud conference, was director of the NOAM youth movement in the UK and their rabbi for many years, is active in the global Masorti Movement, and has been the rabbi of Kol Nefesh Masorti Synagogue, Britain’s first fully egalitarian traditional shul, since 2001.He is particularly interested in exploring which aligned modes of religious study and discipline enhance the practitioner’s core humanistic sensitivities and which fail to do so.