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Thursday, March 31, 2016
High Court: State will recognize non-Rabbinate Orthodox conversions
The High Court rules that conversions to Orthodox Judaism that are not conducted within the framework of the ultra-Orthodox Chief Rabbinate will nonetheless receive official recognition by the state.
In its ruling, the court writes: “There is no law that specifically gives the state the authority to grant exclusivity to its mechanism for conversions,” Army Radio says.