Clergy
Rabbi Lev Meirowitz Nelson serves as the part-time rabbi of FJC. In his day job, Lev teaches middle school Talmud and science at Luria Academy of Brooklyn. Prior to that, he spent 11 years leading the education department at T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, where he trained rabbinical students to be religious human rights leaders and developed materials to help rabbis across the country tackle issues such as systemic racism, immigration, and mass incarceration from a Jewish perspective. In 2017, Lev was honored by the Covenant Foundation with the prestigious Pomegranate Prize, which recognizes exceptional early-career Jewish educators. Lev’s greatest joys as a rabbi include leading soulful singing, facilitating Torah discussions where he learns something new from participants’ insights, and anything having to do with children. He was ordained at the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, a pluralistic school drawing on a wide range of Jewish movements and traditions, where he was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. Lev holds a BA in Geology from Brown University. He lives in the neighborhood with his wife and their three children.
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