Kudos to Rabbi Haskel Lookstein for his response to the politically dictated obstruction of the Israeli rabbinate to American rabbinic conversions (“A Travesty Of Rabbinical Justice In Israel,” Opinion online).
Kudos also to The Jewish Week for bringing out his response, which emphasizes the divisive effect to the American Jewish community this action by that rabbinate will have.
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