Nachum Eisenstein is the rabbi of the Ma'alot Dafna neighborhood, Jerusalem, Israel. He is one of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv's foremost disciples. [1]
American-born Eisenstein heads the International Rabbinical Committee on Conversion. The committee was originally started by Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth, Chief Rabbi of Antwerp, Belgium. [2] [3] Eisenstein is an advocate for creating halachic standards in determining the status of a conversion to Judaism. [4]