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The biggest challenge of the seder is not drinking 4 cups of wine or eating all that matza. It is fulfilling the crucial goal set here.
The biggest challenge of the seder is not drinking 4 cups of wine or eating all that matza. It is fulfilling the crucial goal set here.
The difficult case shows that the Supreme Court ruling on Conservative and Reform conversions hurts all Israelis, including religious Jews.
Unintended consequences of the Supreme Court decision to recognize non-Orthodox conversion will trump all promises to the contrary. Op-ed.
Is that the hope of 2,000 years that Israel wants? A “Jewish State” for a “Jewish People” where no one knows who really is Jewish? Op-ed.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, excoriates Reform conversions, calling them 'not Jewish'.
The courts have no more right to opine on “who is a Jew” than they have to move Shabbat to Tuesday or Pesach to the winter. Opinion.
'The Reformists have made bar mitzvahs for their dogs, they are the ones comparing dogs to people,' MK Moshe Gafni says.
'We'll partner with as many right-wing components of the government as possible,' Yamina's MK Ayelet Shaked promises.
'Court wasn't demanding legislation on the issue, it was demanding legislation in line with its judges' view,' attorney Simcha Rotman says.
The danger is that Reform and Conservative conversions would allow fast-tracking naturalization of foreign laborers in Israel.Opinion.
Noone denies the Jewishness of someone whose mother was Jewish and follows Reform or Conservative religious practice or affiliation.Op-ed.
Conference of European Rabbis issues statement warning against "irresponsible" efforts to change how conversions are handled in Israel.
Joe Biden has children who intermarried with Jews, a sad living symbol of what has happened to American Jewry.
Yaron Avraham opens up about his journey to Judaism from radical Islam.
Despite the virus & advanced age, a Haifa-area man from the former USSR converted to Judaism, was circumsiced & married in a 1-month period.
Rabbi Dror Aryeh responds after bill to ban conversion therapy passes preliminary reading. 'Decree will increase youth suicides.'
Yamina MK attacks Deri's proposal to enact new conversion law ensuring that only conversions in Israel approved by Rabbinate recognized.
Shavei Israel and Rabbinical Council of America to open English-language conversion institute in Jerusalem.
United Right Chair thinks conversion will challenge next gvmnt; 'Religion and state issues should move with consensus, not confrontation.'
Rabbi Avraham Stav criticizes media personality Yedidya Meir, who lashed out at Naftali Bennet's proposed conversion reform.
Israeli Jews strongly divided over whether state-run conversion system should be more lenient to prospective converts.
What happens when the son of a prominent Messianic leader leaves Christianity?
Until a year and a half ago, Yonatan was still called Lutz. In the past he congratulated his friends with "Heil Hitler." Now he is a Jew.
In this informative show we discuss what the potential convert can expect from beginning the process to appearing for a Beit Din.
A convert's dream come true. She knew, even then, that there was something more to life.
Rabbi Yitzhak Peretz resigns. MK Stern: 'Resignation attests to what we knew long ago about failure of State to deal with conversion issue.'
Ugandan would-be student denied visa due to improperly performed conversion.
Deputy Defense Minister calls on government to appoint empower Chief Rabbi to handle conversion matters, says delay harming converts.
Jerusalem court orders government to recognize private conversion performed by 'Giyur K'Halacha.'
Rabbinate says that singer Nasreen Qadri converted through independent program, will not be recognized as Jewish.
Singer Nasreen Qadri, born to Muslim family, finishes conversion process on 32nd birthday, adopting a new name - 'Bracha.'
Rabbi Haim Druckman says Moshe Nissim's Conversion Law outline would solve issue of illegitimate conversions, should not be opposed.
National religious and haredi rabbis express firm opposition to recommendations and call, 'bury Moshe Nissim's recommendations.'
Ugandan man who converted under auspices of Conservative movement given temporary reprieve from deportation.
Why the plan for new conversion authority has haredi, religious-Zionist, Reform, and Conservative leaders up in arms.
Interior Ministry rules not to recognize conversions of Ugandan Jews; Conservative Movement calls decision 'unlawful'.
Rabbis call on Nissim Committee members who signed conversion recommendations to reverse position.
A Dutch mosque says it converted a Holocaust survivor to Islam. Local Jews are skeptical.
Five young women from China reconnect with their Jewish roots, convert to Judaism in emotional ceremony in Jerusalem.
African community converts to Judaism, creating their country's first Jewish community.
Everything you always wanted to know about conversion, but were afraid to ask.
Conservative movement slams Israel for not 'diversifying' determination of Judaism, calls status quo 'unconscionable.'
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow says Chief Rabbinate cannot adopt only the most extreme interpretations of Jewish law, serve only a small group.
Converts should be persuaded to change name, but if they refuse, court must convert without stipulating conversion on name change.
Israeli-Arab teen locked away by family after saying he wishes to become Jewish, join Israeli army.
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Trump attends National Prayer Day breakfast, praises Ivanka's rabbi.
Nine Venezuelans who converted by Conservative standards denied aliyah as they are not in a Jewish community.
Chief Rabbinate commits to creating standards for recognizing rabbis it trusts on conversions,including the Rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump
'Conversion courts need to coordinate more.'
Rabbinical Council of America fuming after Israeli Rabbinate rejects four conversions by leading American rabbinic authority.
According to reports from Jewish leaders in France, there is concern about a rise in conversions to Islam from within the Jewish community.
Student in religious high school "came out" as non-Jewish when National Service opened a conversion course.
Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, head of Crossroads Center for Jewish Law and Technology, proposes a simple solution to the raging conversion wars.
Rabbinic Court rules on case of a woman from Bene Israel Indian community who underwent 'conversion' and married a Cohen.