Ahron Daum

Ahron Daum was born in 1951 in Bnei Brak

Ahron Daum was born in Bnei Brak on January 6, 1951, the eldest of four sons of Shmuel and Rivka Gina Daum. He grew up in a religious Ashkenazi family.

He studied at the Ruzhin yeshiva in Bnei Brak, then at Yeshiva Ha-Rama in London and Yeshiva Etz Chaim in Montreux, Switzerland. From 1975 he earned a bachelor's degree in Jewish Studies at Jews' College in London. From 1978 he studied at Yeshiva University in New York, where he earned a master's degree in Biblical Studies and was ordained by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik.

He returned to Europe, married Francine Frenkel and had three children. In 1982 he became rabbi of Biel in Switzerland, and in 1986 he left for doctoral work at a Christian Jewish institute in Lucerne. In 1987 he became chief rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, where he helped integrate Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union and headed the local rabbinical court.

In 1993 he resigned and moved to Antwerp, Belgium, where he taught Judaism in schools. From 1995 he lectured on Jewish law at the Faculty for Comparative Religion, which gave him an honorary professorship. From 2001 he ran outreach projects with his wife, and he wrote books on Jewish law and the Jewish holidays. He died in Antwerp in 2018.