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Article: On Conversion, Jewish Law Has Many Voices
- Article from:
- The Jerusalem Report
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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EVEN IN THE MIDST of Israel's current securityf crisis, an intra-
Jewish battle over the definition of Jewish identity is brewing. The
Israeli Supreme Court ruled in February that the Interior Ministry
is required to register people converted to Judaism by Reform and
Conservative rabbinical courts in Israel as Jews. Undoubtedly, the
"Who's a Jew" debate - which has roiled the Jewish world for over a
decade - is destined once again to be a focal point of division
among Jews and Jewish religious denominations in both Israel and the
Diaspora.
In his article in the April 22 issue of The Jerusalem Report,
Rabbi Avi Shafran implied that there is a monolithic Orthodox
position on Jewish ...