Nachum Eisenstein is the rabbi of the Ma'alot Dafna neighborhood,

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. He is one of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv's foremost disciples. American-born Eisenstein heads the International Rabbinical Committee on Conversion. The committee was originally started by Rabbi Chaim Kreiswirth, Chief Rabbi of

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. Eisenstein is an advocate for creating halachic standards in determining the status of a conversion to Judaism.

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