‘National religious rabbis have also annulled conversions‘

12.04.2011                      08.Nisan, 5771

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‘National religious rabbis have also annulled conversions'

Rabbi Neria Gutel says question of whether to annul a conversion does not divide national religious and haredi rabbis.

The dispute over the degree of leniency that Jewish law affords the conversion process is not one of halachic stringency, but one of nationalistic ideology, a prominent national religious educator said Monday.
“The State Conversion Authority has also annulled conversions,” said Rabbi Neria Gutel, speaking at a conference on religious educational attitudes toward Israeli non-Jews at the Rehovot campus of Orot Teachers’ College, which he heads. “The question of whether to annul a conversion is not one that divides national religious and haredi rabbis.”…