MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni called on the public this week to step
up the campaign against the false conversions industry in
response to a call by Justice Minister Daniel Friedman to
provide marriage and divorce solutions for those not
considered Jewish according to halacha. "This is the task of
a state that belongs to the family of nations," said
Friedman.
The Justice Minister made his remarks during a meeting in Tel
Aviv where he also called on the beis din system to
relax conversion requirements for the hundreds of thousands
of non-Jewish immigrants living in Israel, and attacked the
decision by the Beis Din Godol in Jerusalem to invalidate a
conversion signed by Rabbi Chaim Druckman, who heads the
conversion court system.
"The Justice Minister's world view is well known," said MK
Rabbi Gafni. "We firmly disagree with him on these matters."
Rabbi Gafni noted that the Justice Minister should have been
the one to attack the fictitious conversions performed by the
rabbinical conversion courts, but instead he has come out
against the beis din that uncovered the false
conversion processes taking place.
"The Justice Minister does not understand the meaning of a
Jewish state. There is no way to turn non-Jews into Jews
except through conversion done according to halacha. We're
already accustomed to seeing here in the State of Israel in
all matters associated with Judaism that the ends justify the
means. We must redouble our efforts to fight this, not
allowing the walls of Judaism or Kerem Beis Yisroel to be
breached," said Rabbi Gafni
