Rabbi Akiva Naiman and his wife, Chani and five children, Yedidya Zev, Matanya, Elisha, Esther and Zohara, he is now on his 8th year of working for West Coast NCSY. Akiva grew up in Baltimore and then Israel, where he was a medic in the IDF as well as get his rabbinical inauguration (smicha). He likes reading, playing basketball and ping pong, freestyle rapping, and juggling fire.