David Bashevkin

David Bashevkin (also spelled Dovid Bashevkin) is an American rabbi, writer, professor, and podcast host based in New York.[1][2][3] He is currently Director of Education of NCSY, an Orthodox Union youth group.[4]

Rabbi

David Bashevkin
Personal
ReligionJudaism
NationalityAmerican
DenominationOrthodox Judaism
Alma materThe New School (Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy)
OccupationRabbi, professor, writer, podcast host
PositionDirector of Education
OrganizationNCSY
ResidenceTeaneck, New Jersey

Early life and education

Bashevkin is a graduate of DRS HALB (Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys).[5] He earned his bachelor's degree in Talmudic Studies at Ner Israel Rabbinical College in 2006. After receiving his rabbinic ordination at Yeshiva University, he graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Jewish/Judaic studies under Yaakov Elman at Yeshiva University in 2010. From 2013 to 2017, he studied for a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis at The New School's Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy, where he focused on crisis management.[6]

Career

NCSY

Bashevkin began his academic career as an associate director of education at NCSY from 2010 to 2013, and as of 2013 is the director of education at the NCSY Jewish youth group, a division of the Orthodox Union. As the leader of NCSY, he has directed many youth seminars and programs, and has also developed curriculum for staff and teens.[7]

Academia

Bashevkin served as an adjunct professor at Long Island University from 2010 to 2011.[8][6] He currently teaches at Yeshiva University in the Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies,[9] as well as in the Sy Syms School of Business.[10]

Writing

Bashevkin is a writer for Mishpacha magazine, where he has written a humor column called “Top 5”, cataloguing the idiosyncrasies and nuances of Jewish life.[8] He has also written essays for Tablet (magazine) on tractates of the Talmud as they have been learned in the Daf Yomi sequence.[11]

Podcasts

Bashevkin developed a Tablet Daf Yomi podcast called Take One with Liel Leibovitz.[12][13] In 2020 Bashevkin launched the 18Forty podcast to treat traditional Jewish issues in a modern context.[3][14] The podcasts are organized by topic, with a few guests being interviewed for each topic. Past topics include Biblical criticism, Off the derech, and Mysticism, and past guests include Gary Gulman, Moshe Weinberger, and Jeremy England.

Publications

Books

Bashevkin's published books include B'Rogez Rachem Tizkor[15][16] Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thoughts,[17][18] and Top 5: Lists of Jewish Character and Characters.[19]

Sin•a•gogue draws extensively from the works of Rabbi Zadok HaKohen Rabinowitz, a 19th-century Chasidic rabbi.[18] Many of Bashevkin's ideas in the book were based on Zadok's theology on sin.

He also authored the NCSY Haggadah entitled Just One.[20]

Articles

Bashevkin has written various articles on Jewish theology.[21] He has published many other articles on sin, failure,[22] and Jewish doctrine and tradition, including the application of Jewish scripture in the 21st-century digital age.[23][24]

Some of his published articles are:

See also

References
  1. "Dovid Bashevkin". Mishpacha Magazine. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  2. "Dovid Bashevkin | Yeshiva University". www.yu.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  3. "Home". EIGHTEENFORTY. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  4. NCSY staff page.
  5. "Rav Tzaddok Built Bridges for Me". Mishpacha. September 10, 2019.
  6. Bashevkin, Dovid. "Why are You Here? Truth, Comfort, and Religious Motivation". My Jewish Learning. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  7. "NCSY education". NCSY. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  8. "Dovid Bashevkin". Mishpacha Jewish Family Weekly. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  9. "Undergraduate Torah Studies: Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies (IBC)". Yeshiva University. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  10. "Celebration of University Authors". Edublog. 2019-05-10. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  11. "Dovid Bashevkin". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  12. "Take One". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  13. "Arguing About the Talmud". Tablet Magazine. March 8, 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  14. Yudelson, Larry. "Preaching the controversy". jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  15. B'Rogez Rachem Tizkor.
  16. Bashevkin, Dovid. "Jonah and the Varieties of Religious Motivation." Archived 2016-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Lehrhaus. 9 October 2016. 2 October 2017.
  17. Rosenbaum, Alan (July 10, 2019). "Book review: Growing through sin?". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  18. Yudelson, Larry (April 11, 2019). "Sin, failure, and the Haggadah". Times of Israel. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  19. "Top 5". Israel Bookshop Publications. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  20. Bashevkin, Dovid (Jan 27, 2019). "Just One - The NCSY Haggadah". Menucha Publishers. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  21. "Dovid Bashevkin". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  22. Silver, Jonathan, host. "Podcast: David Bashevkin on Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought." The Tikvah Podcast, The Tikvah Fund, 3 Oct. 2019.
  23. "Bashevkin, David. "Medium Matters: The Medium and Message of Torah in the Digital Age," Shavuot-To-Go (2016): 6-9". Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  24. Bashevkin, David (2014-05-08). "Life Is Full of Failure. Bio Blurbs Should Be Too". First Things. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
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