The recently-approved Israeli conversion bill passed by the Knesset Ministerial Committee notes that conversions must be conducted according to din Torah. But, Matzav.com has learned, it also includes a clause which states, “The provisions of this law do not change the existing legal situation… regarding the issue of a conversion not made in the conversion system.”
According to MK Gilad Kariv of Labor, a Reform rabbi, the purpose of this clause is “to preserve the recognition of non-Orthodox conversions as established in various rulings of the Supreme Court regarding ‘Who is a Jew.’”
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that people who convert to Judaism in Israel through the Reform and Conservative movements must be recognized as Jews for the purpose of the Law of Return, and are entitled to Israeli citizenship. Until then, this only applied to people getting such conversions overseas.
Right-wing and religious politicians spoke of creating legislation to overturn the court’s decision, but this never happened.
The new conversion law omitted a clause demanded by MK Yulia Malinovsky, chairman of the Knesset Committee of Religious Affairs, which would have allowed roshei yeshiva to conduct conversions. Instead, the bill requires rabbonim with at least five years of practical experience.
Forget it, it’s a lost country. They’re bending over backwards to appease people. They are being מתיר אסורים at every single turn.
Dim.
Why does Israel allow secular non-elected judges to meddle in religious affairs? The court will soon force Chassidim to accept Litvishe in their minyan and the tefillos should follow the Litvishe. The problem is not with the court, the problem is with Israelis and their apathy.
Right when the Deformed movement is closing one temple after another, in the US, due to both overwhelmingly high rates of intermarriage, and total lack of commitment and interest even in the former members who marry their own, this horrible disease is spreading in Israel. The fight to get conversion recognition isn’t about religious rights, at all. It’s all about validation, which the Deformed do not deserve. Aren’t there enough goyim in Israel, already?
Isn’t it pathetic that a movement, whose goal is to assimilate and disappear, insists on promoting its suicidal agenda?
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just like in America the mesader kiddushin has an obligation to be mevarer the halachik status of the chasan kallah
and similarly in the world
so to in israel the mesader kiddushin will have to be mevarer
if in america you are not satisfied with the giyur .. then you walk .. in israel similarly
the same applies in kashrus – OU vs Heimish hashgachas ..you dont like the hashgacha .. walk over to the next restaurant !!
it is your obligation to check
it is entirely inappropriate subject others to your halachik standards and stringencies
if you dont like the standards then set up your own infrastructure
every bais din will hve a sefer yuchasin ..
Please don’t call this chote umachti a “rabbi”. Even the “clergyman” title is too high for a person who doesn’t believe in G-d, altogether.
He is just a Director General of a mixed social club, whose Judaic knowledge is below that of an am ho’oretz, or of a Christian priest. The man is an absolute nobody.
Why won’t Matzav allow any criticism of Matan Kahana? Are you that biased?