Another day, another outrage from the ḥaredi rabbinate. This time, it’s a decision by a Jerusalem beit din (rabbinical court) annulling a conversion to Judaism which took place over thirty years ago. The conversion, in other words, legally never happened. You can read the details here (and here, in Hebrew). One of the more sordid of these is that the head of the beit din, Rabbi Ḥayyim Yehudah Rabinowitz (that’s him in the middle of the picture), is currently embroiled in charges of corruption surrounding his conduct of the court.  Continue reading Conversion? What Conversion? →