Forward editor Jane Eisner wins Twersky Award Eisner was tapped for the 2015 David Twersky Journalism Award for an editorial calling for an easing of the Jewish conversion process. February 23, 2015 2:51 pm
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 January 21, 2015 5:48 pm
Ideas Op-Ed: Why the RCA’s conversion system is better than the alternative By Mark Dratch November 17, 2014 4:46 pm
Ideas Op-Ed: Centralizing authority on conversions hurts converts By Rabbi Avi Weiss and Marc Angel November 13, 2014 3:23 pm
For some Orthodox converts, biggest challenges come after mikvah By Uriel Heilman November 4, 2014 10:16 am