Avi Finegold

{{Short description|Canadian rabbi}}

Avi Finegold is a Canadian rabbi in Montreal. In 2015, he founded the Jewish Learning Lab for adult Jewish education, and from July 2017 to 2018 served as interim rabbi of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of Montreal.{{cite news|title=Rabbi uses booze, technology to spread Jewish thought|first=Janice|last=Arnold|date=February 21, 2019|newspaper=The Canadian Jewish News|url=https://www.cjnews.com/living-jewish/rabbi-uses-booze-technology-to-spread-jewish-thought|access-date=November 25, 2020}} Finegold previously served as executive director of the Montreal Board of Rabbis.{{cite news|title=Making history at Shaar Hashomayim|newspaper=Westmount Examiner|first=Stéphanie|last=Alcaraz-Robinson|date=March 6, 2014|url=http://www.westmountexaminer.com/My-neighborhood-/2014-03-06/article-3639496/Making-history-at-Shaar-Hashomayim/1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909085247/http://www.westmountexaminer.com/My-neighborhood-/2014-03-06/article-3639496/Making-history-at-Shaar-Hashomayim/1|archive-date=September 9, 2014}}

In 2021, Finegold started a podcast with The Canadian Jewish News called Bonjour Chai, a weekly current affairs program discussing topics relevant to the Canadian Jewish community. His co-hosts are actor/writer David Sklar in Calgary and actor Ilana Zackon in Vancouver.{{cite web |title=Bonjour Chai, episode 1: Same-Sex Marriage Revolution |url=https://thecjn.ca/same-sex-marriage-revolution/ |website=The CJN |access-date=4 May 2021}}

He is married to Rabba Rachel Kohl Finegold, of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim.{{Cite news|url=http://oychicago.com/article.aspx?id=2478&blogid=132|title=Let's Talk About (Orthodox) Sex|last=Pervos|first=Stefanie|date=March 12, 2009|work=Oy! Chicago|publisher=Jewish United Fund}}