The Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel traveled to the United States last week to hammer out the specifics of a new agreement on Orthodox conversion practices. Rabbi Shlomo Amar met in New York with ...

A while back I sent a certain Orthodox rabbi a link to Rabbi Mark Angel’s article about conversion which appeared in the Forward http://www.forward.com/articles ...

Since last Thursday, when The New York Times reported that the Israeli Rabbinate rejected a conversion performed by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun on the ...

The voyeurism case against Rabbi Barry Freundel prompted calls for reform in his Modern Orthodox community this week, with a key rabbinical group creating a committee to improve the conversion process ...

(JTA) — Even if you converted to Judaism under Orthodox auspices, your conversion may be called into question by the Israeli Chief Rabbinate and the Rabbinical Council of America, the main centrist ...

Distance learning has emerged as a tool for potential converts to Judaism, but as with online degrees, suspicion surrounds conversions relying on the method. (JTA) — The morning of her conversion, ...

MK Yulia Malinovsky (Israel Beitenu, chaired by Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman) on Monday night tweeted an insulting message to Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau: “The citizens of Israel ...

If you are a religious person reading this, it means that you have have undergone a conversion. If we embrace our religious traditions, we learn that we are meant to change the way we see ourselves in ...

The rabbi who oversaw Ivanka Trump’s conversion to Judaism has released a letter to the congregation of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s longtime synagogue condemning President Trump’s widely ...