conversion

Chief rabbi says he won’t validate municipal rabbis’ conversions

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef vowed to block the conversions, despite a government directive recognizing conversions performed by municipal rabbis.

February 20, 2015 8:39 am

New project to help olim begin conversion process before aliyah

Only a third of all immigrants to Israel, or olim, in the last decade from former Soviet countries are halachically Jewish or able to prove that they are after they immigrate.

February 4, 2015 3:41 pm

Advocacy group: Municipal conversion courts still awaiting Chief Rabbinate approval

The municipal rabbis filed their requests in early December, a month after the Cabinet passed a government regulation to reform the conversion process, the director of ITIM said.

January 21, 2015 5:48 pm