High Court: State Must Pay for Circumcisions of Non-Orthodox Converts
The justices based their decision on the need for equality and "respect for religious freedom."
Netanyahu Appoints Rabbi Yehuda Amichay as Acting Director of the Conversion Authority
The decision was made in consultation with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
First-Ever Certificate of Jewish Ancestry Launched
The certificate is something which a growing number of those with Jewish ancestry have suggested would be an enormous sense of pride and identity for them.
Gush Etzion Tenth Grade Girls Orchestrate Wedding for 2 Olim Converts
"They have pure hearts, a real and profound desire to make others happy, and a special light that radiates from their faces."
‘We Will Not Accept Converts Under New Reform,’ Israel’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi Warns
“We call on the religious services minister to not heed the uninfluential rabbis, to wake up,” says Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
Uproar as High Court Recognizes Reform and Conservative Conversions
MK Mai Golan wrote that the court ruling means that “an illegal infiltrator can undergo a reform conversion in 10 minutes and receive Israeli citizenship.”