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Breaking The Orthodox Monopoly In Israel
Bearing in mind that we’ve recently had a couple of posts here on the blog about making aliyah. I thought I would share this recent Forward article titled “Breaking Orthodox Monopoly, Israeli Reform and Conservative Congregations Get Government Land Grants” with our readers. It’s not directly about aliyah but it touches on one of the [...]
Gershom Gorenberg on the Israeli Conversion Crisis
We received the latest issue of Moment Magazine in the mail today and it has an interesting Op-Ed piece in it by Jerusalem based journalist Gershom Gorenberg on the recent conversion controversy in Israel.
Here is a snippet for anyone who is interested, with points of interest underlined by yours truly.
Israel’s Supreme Rabbinic Court [...]
More Conversion Meshuganas - Deaf Need NOT Apply!
I just came across the following on the Ynet site:
Anyone inflicted with a severe hearing and speech impediment cannot undergo Jewish conversion. This harsh statement was recently made by Rabbi Avraham Sherman of the Chief Rabbinical Court, in a ruling now made public.
And here is why incase you were wondering!
Any conversion preformed on the [...]
RabbiPod On The Israeli Conversion Crisis
Last week Rabbi Eli Garfinkel of Temple Beth El (a Conservative Synagogue in Somerset, NJ) recorded an interesting Podcast. In short the good Rabbi shares some of his concerns regarding the recent conversion fiasco in Israel.
Here is a brief summary of the episode from the RabbiPod site.
In this episode of RabbiPod, I argue [...]
The Un-Jewing of Orthodox Converts in Israel
I’m sure that most of our reader by now have already heard about the latest in the fiasco in Israel regarding converts and the “Who is a Jew” question. But in case you haven’t here is a snippet from a recent Jerusalem Post article covering the story.
The Jewishness of thousands of converts was cast [...]
