Garut 1. There seems to be two schools of thought to converts. a. We should attract them b. Discourage them 2. One statement in the Talmud which best describes the argument “converts are as hard for Israel as a sore” 3. The simple meaning is that they are outsiders and therefore not
Read more →A recent attack on Israel’s Chief Rabbinate invoked the late and revered American Orthodox decisor of Jewish law, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. The attacker was Professor Benjamin Ish-Shalom, the director of Israel’s Institute for Jewish Studies, an agency charged with offering a course of Jewish study to non-Jewish
Read more →Israel’s Orthodox Rabbinate has been under siege of late, over the issue – once again – of conversion. And once again as well, the media abound with misinformation. This time, though, some of it is being supplied by Orthodox rabbis. Writing in the Jerusalem Post, the retiring
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