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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

Beth Din of America

Reuven Spolter
December 15, 2016, 3:23 pm
Reuven Spolter
Same-old, same-old, and now official
Transparency doesn’t cut it; the Rabbinate’s conversion committee needs an Anglo who knows the American Orthodox scene
The Chief Rabbis of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (L) and Rabbi David Lau (R) speaks during an event, on January 11, 2016. (Yaakov Coehn/Flash90)
December 15, 2016, 6:57 am
Rabbinate forms conversion vetting panel, raising hackles anew
Committee includes member who rejected New York rabbi Lookstein, who brought Ivanka Trump into Judaism and now apparently won’t be accepted despite chief rabbis’ promises
By ToI Staff
Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau attends a conference in memory of late Yemenite rabbi Yihya Yitzhak Halevi in Petah Tikva on June 15, 2016. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)
September 26, 2016, 11:48 pm
Israeli chief rabbi calls on court to accept US conversions
Rabbi David Lau urges officials to recognize as Jews those converted by senior American Orthodox rabbis
By JTA
Gedalia Dov Schwartz (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 23, 2016, 10:16 pm
Israeli Chief Rabbinate nixes 4 conversions approved by top US rabbi
No reason given for decision on processes okayed by Gedalia Dov Schwartz, chief judge at America’s main Modern Orthodox rabbinical court
By JTA
Rabbi Barry Freundel leaves the DC Superior Court House in Washington, February 19, 2015. (AP file Photo/Cliff Owen)
August 16, 2016, 9:59 pm
Beth Din of America added to $100m civil suit in Freundel case
Plaintiffs say warning signs were ignored regarding rabbi convicted of secretly taping women in his synagogue’s ritual bath
By JTA
Rabbi Barry Freundel has been known as a national leader on conversion and a strict moralist. (JTA)
January 30, 2015, 6:33 am
Synagogue launches religious court case to evict Rabbi Barry Freundel
Rabbi charged with voyeurism said last month he didn’t intend to leave Kesher Israel-owned house
By JTA
November 8, 2014, 6:30 am
Beth Din of America set to add female board member
Dr. Michelle Friedman, pastoral counselor at modern Orthodox seminary in New York, invited to join rabbinic court
By JTA
Rabbi Michael Broyde, a prominent religious judge and law decisor, has seen his reputation ruined by revelations that he used a fake persona to gain membership in a rabbinic group. (Courtesy Emory University/JTA)
April 17, 2013, 11:40 am
Rabbi Michael Broyde’s Internet identity problem
Had the disgraced Jewish ethicist been more tech-savvy, he would never have been caught using his Rabbi Hershel Goldwasser pen name
By Ben Harris
Leading rabbi and Emory University law professor Michael Broyde. (photo credit: Emory University/YouTube)
April 15, 2013, 7:40 pm
Rabbi Michael Broyde booted from religious court after using fake identity
Prominent ‘dayan’ used fake persona to infiltrate rival rabbinic organization and promote his own scholarship
By Ben Harris
Leading rabbi and Emory University law professor Michael Broyde. (photo credit: Emory University/YouTube)
April 13, 2013, 7:34 am
Leading Orthodox rabbi admits to identity fraud
Michael Broyde says he used fake persona to infiltrate rival rabbinic organization and promote his own scholarship
Illustrative: Genetic testing. (Memorial University of Newfoundland via JTA)
November 25, 2012, 6:57 am
Genetic testing raises wrenching questions for Jewish parents
Rabbis and bioethics scholars struggle over advances that could boost health, fearing they could also lead to more abortions
By Joel N. Shurkin
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