University of Massachusetts

Rabbi Raffi and Ariella Leicht became the JLIC educators at UMass Amherst in 2016. Raffi was born in Manhattan and raised on the Upper West Side and in Los Angeles, CA.  After Manhattan Day School and the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (MTA), Raffi studied in Israel (Yeshivat Reishit, Aish HaTorah, and Derech HaTalmud) for two years. He studied in Israel and Yeshiva University for his Rabbinical education and studied neuropsychology at The City University of New York Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies and Hebrew University's Rothberg International School. He has conducted research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and traded on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, led Passover seders in Katowice, Poland and Flensburg, Germany, written for Tablet Magaz Read More