17.03.2011 11.Adar ll, 5771
Judentum:
Chief Rabbinate drawing up new procedures to determine which Orthodox communities are eligible for aliya, since current practice bars many converts.
The Chief Rabbinate, Interior Ministry and State Attorney’s Office are currently drawing up new procedures to determine the validity of Orthodox conversions for the purpose of aliya, Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar said on Wednesday.
Amar was speaking during a special meeting of the Knesset’s Aliya, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs Committee that was summoned in the wake of Orthodox conversions not being recognized for the purpose of aliya by the Interior Ministry, due to the fact that it consults with the Chief Rabbinate on the validity of Orthodox conversions….