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Monday, August 10, 2015
Meretz leader slams independent Orthodox conversion courts
Meretz leader MK Zahava Gal-on criticizes the announcement Monday of a new independent conversion system established by prominent Israeli Orthodox rabbis.
While the new courts fly in the face of the ultra-Orthodox-dominated Chief Rabbinate, Gal-on insists it only continues the Orthodox monopoly of Israeli religious life.
“An alternative conversion body will depend on Orthodox coercion,” she says. “The entry ticket to Judaism will still be dependent on Orthodox conversion, whether it is done by Haredi rabbis or nationalist-religious ones.”
The Orthodox standards in both cases will “force them to lie to the people converting them.”
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