About Rabbi David Leipziger Teva

Rabbi David joined Wesleyan in 2002, and in 2007 became the founding director of Wesleyan’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, where he oversees the chaplains, staff, and interfaith literacy initiatives.

As a Staff Professor in Public Policy with the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life (Bio Here), he currently teaches a cross-curricular course on Spiritual Autobiography: Building Community Through Interfaith Literacy (CSPL 207, RELI 207, ENGL 268) as well as Introduction to Mindfulness in the fall and spring (CSPL/CIS 135).

He has worked as a Jewish chaplain/campus rabbi since 1996. Prior to his arrival at Wesleyan University, his chaplaincy experience included time at both Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.

Rabbi David studied at Columbia University (BA), The Jewish Theological Seminary (BA), Yakar Institute, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (MHL and Rabbinic Ordination), and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2015 he completed a second Smikha/Ordination with Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal in the lineage of his beloved mentor Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi z'l.

Rabbi David’s academic interests include contemplative pedagogy, Hassidut, the evolutionary development of Judaism, and new methodologies and pedagogies for inter-religious and interfaith dialogue.

He currently serves as an advisor to the non-profit Dharma Gates, and is a member of the Middlesex Hospital Medical Ethics Committee.
 
Feel free to contact Rabbi David at his campus address:

Rabbi David Leipziger Teva
University Jewish Chaplain 
Wesleyan University
169 High Street (2nd Floor)
Middletown, CT 06459

Voice: 860-685-2278
dleipziger@wesleyan.edu

For mailing address, send mail to the following address:

Rabbi David Leipziger Teva
University Jewish Chaplain  
Wesleyan University
171 Church Street
Middletown, CT 06459