David Bashevkin


David Bashevkin is an American rabbi, writer, and professor based in New York. He is currently Director of Education of NCSY, an Orthodox Union youth group.

Early life and education

Bashevkin 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 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.

Career

Bashevkin is the current 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
Bashevkin began his academic career as an associate director of education at NCSY from 2010 to 2013, and became the director in 2013. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Long Island University from 2010 to 2011. He currently teaches at Yeshiva University in the Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies, as well as in the Sy Syms School of Business.
He is the Talmud study partner of Liel Leibovitz, where they developed a Tablet Daf Yomi podcast called Take One Bashevkin is a writer for Mishpacha magazine as well, where he has written a humor column called “Top 5”, cataloguing the idiosyncrasies and nuances of Jewish life.

Publications

Books

Bashevkin's published books include B'Rogez Rachem Tizkor and Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thoughts.
Sin•a•gogue draws extensively from the works of Rabbi Zadok HaKohen Rabinowitz, a 19th-century Chasidic rabbi. 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.

Articles

Bashevkin has written various articles on Jewish theology. He has published many other articles on sin, failure, and Jewish doctrine and tradition, including the application of Jewish scripture in the 21st-century digital age.
Some of his published articles are: