Please feel free to contact the Rabbi about learning opportunities, pastoral needs, and general questions regarding Jewish life and observances rabbi@ahavas-achim.org or at 978-518-1504
A fourth generation Rabbi, who hails from Montreal, Avi joined Ahavas Achim in August of 2011.
Avi served as the Hillel Campus Rabbi at Harvard University from 2005-2007. He has spent the last four years teaching in Israel, first at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem and then at Midreshet Ein Prat-The Israeli Academy for Leadership.
Avi earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Jewish Thought from Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv. He also studied at the Yeshiva University’s Gruss Institute in Jerusalem, and received his rabbinic ordination from the High Court in Jerusalem. He is currently a doctoral student at Bar-Ilan University and is in the midst of writing his dissertation on the topic of “The Ontological Status of the Muslim and the Convert in 13th Century Jewish Mystical Writings”.
Avi resides in Newburyport with his wife Carina and two young boys, Judah and Moses.
