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Avi Baumol graduated Yeshiva University and Yeshivat Har Etzion and has spent the last three decades educating Jews and non-Jews, men and women, young and old. He was the Rabbi in Vancouver, Canada at the Schara Tzedeck Synagogue, the Rabbinic representative of the Chief Rabbi of Poland in Krakow for over a decade and is currently a Ra”m and Director of Night Seder at Midreshet Torah v’Avoda in Jerusalem. He is also the author of several books on Jewish topics such as The Poetry of Prayer (Gefen, 2010), Torat Bitecha (2018), In My Grandfather’s Footsteps: A Rabbi’s Notes from the Frontlines of Poland’s Jewish Revival (Austeria 2019), Parshology (2023) and God, Man and Time (2024). He has facilitated the conversion of tens of Jews in many countries through Batei Din in London, Moscow, Frankfurt and various batei din in Israel. Rabbi Baumol is also a licensed tour guide in Israel.
Avi Baumol reviews Rabbi Eliezer Melamed's bold contribution to the halakhic literature on conversion standards.