Jerusalem – Israel Rabbinical Courts Unjew Orthodox Convert Approved By Beis Din Of America

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    FILE - A man sits outside the Rabbinical Court in Tel Aviv on November 27, 2013. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Jerusalem – A rabbinical court in Israel rejected the Jewish status of a man whose mother converted to Judaism in the 1970s and had the conversion reaffirmed last year by the Beth Din of America.

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    The woman converted in the United States in an Orthodox rabbinical court certified by the Beit Din of America, which is included on the list of international rabbinical courts approved by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel for conversion.

    Her son had submitted a request to be registered for marriage through the Tel Aviv rabbinate. Since his mother was a Jew by choice, he was forced to undergo a Jewish status investigation. His request for marriage was denied.

    Several years ago, his brother was married through the Chief Rabbinate and his Jewish status was not challenged, The Jerusalem Post reported.

    All the rabbis that served on the mother’s conversion court are dead.

    Itim, the Jewish Life Advocacy Center, has appealed to Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi, David Lau, to overturn the decision.

    In November, the Office of the Chief Rabbi published lists of rabbis and rabbinical courts whose authority it accepts for purposes of conversion and divorce after six years of requests, lawsuits and Knesset hearings led by Itim.

    Rabbi Seth Farber, the director of Itim, said the Office of the Chief Rabbi is ignoring its own list of recognized rabbinical courts, “confusing everyone involved.”

    “This is an intolerable situation in which the State Rabbinate is discriminating against converts, disregarding its own standards, violating Halacha, and defying normative Orthodoxy,” he said in a statement.


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    Cixelsyd_Wnosanoy
    Cixelsyd_Wnosanoy
    4 years ago

    The Goy was no doubt Obama loving and Trump hating…so doesn’t deserve to be a Jew. Throw him to the Muslims!

    gersh
    gersh
    4 years ago

    My gosh. I hope that both of the above inappropriate comments will be removed bt the moderator asap.

    Cixelsyd_Wnosanoy
    Cixelsyd_Wnosanoy
    4 years ago

    Now who’s ripping off my schtick? Reversing name spelling was my idea; an unintended benefit is that it drives Archy bananas, so I doubt he’d do it to hisown name…but shkoyach to the perp.

    Bsyata-dshmaya
    Bsyata-dshmaya
    4 years ago

    Pls remove comments 1 and 2, unethical to every degree.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    4 years ago

    Increasingly, Israel is the homeland of only certain sorts of Jews.

    SuchHatred
    SuchHatred
    4 years ago

    … for the spot-on choice of verb in the headline, “Unjew”.

    walkinsilence
    walkinsilence
    4 years ago

    Israel’s Rabbinate is an insult to the Shulchan Oruch and Halacha!