Rabbi Shimon Kutnovsky-Liak was born and raised in Israel in a traditional Zionist family from the Soviet Union. He has a college degree in international relations and Judaism, and since 2006 he has worked with Jewish communities in the U.S. and Russia. In 2018 he moved to Latvia to rebuild the Jewish community in Jurmala. He is the chairman of this community and a board member of the Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia.
