Background
Levi was born in Germany and was educated in the United States.
Levi was born in Germany and was educated in the United States.
He studied Talmud at Gur Aryeh Institute"s kollel, and received semicha (Rabbinic ordination) from Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner and additionally from Rabbi Joseph Breuer.
He received his Bachelor"s and Master"s degrees in electrical engineering from City College, New York and his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1964. He served as Rector of the college from 1982 to 1990. Levi was a Fellow of the Gur Aryeh Institute for Advanced Jewish Scholarship, has been president of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, both in the United States.A. and in Israel, and is the recipient of the Feder (Torah & Science) and Abramowitz-Zeitlin (Jewish literature) awards.
Levi is currently on the faculty of Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim (The Jerusalem Academy of Jewish Studies).