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NEWS
Vaad Harabbonim: 'No Room for Knesset Interference in
Conversion'
By Yechiel Sever
"There is no room for the Knesset and MKs to deliberate
conversion, which is clearly a halachic issue," said a
spokesman for Vaad Harabbonim LeInyonei Giyur, in reaction to
ongoing anti-Jewish remarks by Education Minister Gidon Saar,
who has now announced his opposition to the Conversion Law,
which states that only the Orthodox Rabbinate is authorized
to conduct conversions.
"I will oppose the Conversion Law, which will harm relations
with world Jewry," said Saar at the Jewish Agency's Board of
Directors meeting. "The Government of Israel will not
tolerate any attempt to harm the special relations between
the State of Israel and world Jewry. Despite the
disagreement, we will remain a single people, a single
family," he added.
In response Vaad Harabbonim LeInyonei Giyur, founded by HaRav
Chaim Kreiswirth zt"l, released a statement saying,
"Conversion is clearly a halachic process, and only
conversion in accordance with the holy Torah passed down to
us since Mt. Sinai, which relates how converts are to be
brought into Klal Yisroel, can determine who is a Jew. There
is no room for the Knesset or Members of Knesset to
deliberate these patently halachic issues, and no MK has the
authority to even speak about it. The conversion process must
be exclusively in the hands of prominent rabbis who reach
decisions based on the rulings of the Shulchan Oruch, in
accordance with the tradition handed down through the
generations."
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