Zeiger grew up in Northern Argentina. He is a professor emeritus at the
University of California, Los Angeles which was founded for the purpose of integrating Torah wisdom and the wisdom of secular sciences. Since 1992, Zeiger has been a student of Rabbi
Yitzchak Ginsburgh, a leading authority on Jewish mysticism. Together, Ginsburgh and Zeiger have co-authored part of a series of integrative Torah biology textbooks for Jewish high schools on nutrition and the nervous system. == Selected publications ==