Rabbi Chaim Druckman, the head of the conversion courts in Israel, has harshly criticized Rabbi Avraham Atiya of Ashkelon, who annulled one of Druckman’s conversions. Atiya ruled that a woman who converted 15 years ago and her three children were not Jewish after the woman admitted that she had never planned to keep Jewish law. Atiya criticized the conversion courts in his ruling, saying they were run by “heretics and criminals” who “push [the Jewish people] toward assimilation.”
Druckman called Atiya’s statements “outrageous,” and said he does not trust Atiya’s claim that the woman said she did not intend to keep Jewish law. Druckman also said that even a convert who did not keep Jewish law remains a Jew.
Druckman called Atiya’s statements “outrageous,” and said he does not trust Atiya’s claim that the woman said she did not intend to keep Jewish law. Druckman also said that even a convert who did not keep Jewish law remains a Jew.