Davening Team

Ross Levinson

"The Beat"

Ross Levinson grew up in Brooklyn, NY acting, acting out, and playing violin and football. He began studying piano at age five, and switched to violin at age eight. He has written music for television and film, and is currently a professor at CSULA.  He performs live with a number of bands and loves davening and drumming at IKAR.

Jaclyn Beck

"The Voice"

Music has always been an incredible force in Jaclyn’s life.  For her, singing is prayer, and music heals like no other remedy.  She feels blessed to work along side such extraordinarily gifted spiritual leaders and musicians and is grateful to be part of a community that is both authentically Jewish and committed to the pursuit of a more just world.

Devorah Brous

"The Spirit"

When Devorah is not drumming at IKAR and soaking up her sister's Torah, she is banging out rhythm as a community organizer.  She spent 15 years designing campaigns to advance human rights, community self-reliance, and environmental justice in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.  In 1999, she founded BUSTAN, working with the Bedouin in the Negev, and ran it for nine years.

Judah Golub

"The Mini-Beat"

Judah has been playing the drums since he could gather all the toys around himself and bang on them. He has attended IKAR since before he was born, so the music of IKAR is in him. He idolizes Ross and Hillel and also Steely Dan. He began playing with the IKAR daveners at the Shabbaton in 2011. He plays the drums in a rock band, The Bad Boyz and with his brothers at home. Being on the davening team is the coolest thing that has ever happened to him. Judah is 6 years old and in the first grade.