Zev Leff

Zev Leff was born in Bronx, New York, to a Jewish family. His parents and grandparents were all American-born. and became a close talmid (student) of Rabbi Mordechai Gifter. In 1968, he married Rivkah Minkoff of Ellenville, New York. The couple settled in Cleveland, where Leff studied in the Telshe kollel for the next six years. He also taught in the Yavneh girls' high school and seminary. ==Rabbinic career ==

In 1974, Leff was appointed Rav of the Young Israel of Greater Miami, located in North Miami Beach, Florida. In 1983, Leff and his family decided to make aliyah to Israel, where he became the Rav and ''mora d'asra'' (rabbinic communal leader) of Moshav Matityahu, a small settlement now adjacent to Modi'in Illit (Kiryat Sefer). At the time, the moshav was home to 11 families. which was geared to American-born students. and the Jewish Learning Exchange of London. He also teaches at Seminar Yerushalayim, Neve Yerushalayim's Midreshet Tehillah, Michlala Women's College, and Bnot Torah; he formerly taught at the EYAHT College for Jewish Women. He teaches "practical rabbinics" for the Ohr Lagolah Institute (based in Ohr Somayach, Jerusalem). and the Association for Jewish Outreach Programs. He is a rabbinic consultant for the Refuah Institute and Baruch Rofeh Cholim. ==Soccer game coverage==

In November 2018, a Sky News video of Leff engrossed in a sefer at a Scotland–Israel UEFA Nations League soccer game, oblivious to the excitement in the stadium after Israel scored its first goal, went viral. Leff and his wife had been visiting their daughter and son-in-law, the latter a UK Rabbanut chaplain for all the universities in Glasgow, and accompanied the entire community to dinner and the game.{{cite news |newspaper=The Forward ==Opinions==

In The Jewish Press "Is It Proper" series on the topic of the loudness of music played at religious weddings, Leff remarked, "Music (even music with lyrics that are based on verses from Tanach or tefillah) whose beat, tempo, or volume creates a mood of wild abandon (hefkerus), or could accompany primitive natives dancing around a cauldron cooking a human being, is not kosher irrespective of who composed it or is playing it – be they non-Jews or religious Jews". ==Bibliography ==

• Jewish Heritage Journey with Rabbi Leff: A Multimedia Jewish Heritage Journey to Lithuania, Poland & Belarus (Shorashim Productions and Grafix Mediaworx, distributed by Torah Educational Software) ==References ==