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April 11, 2022

The Orthodox Case for Changing the Way the Israeli Rabbinate Handles Conversions

“Checklists are for driving licenses, not for religious courts.”

Last week, a group of prominent American Orthodox rabbis wrote an open letter to Matan Kahana, Israel’s minister of religious affairs, criticizing his plan to reform the chief rabbinate’s policies toward conversions to Judaism. His proposal would devolve more authority from the offices of the chief rabbis to local religious courts. David Brofsky, himself an Orthodox rabbi, responds in defense of Kahana’s plan:

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