Gran Rabbinato di Israele respinge conversioni autorizzate dal rabbinato americano
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Il Gran Rabbinato di Israele ha recentemente rifiutato, senza spiegazioni, di riconoscere
conversioni autorizzate dalla corte rabbinica ortodossa negli Stati Uniti.
. Questa settimana, dopo un tumulto pubblico, il Rabbinato ha accettato di
riconoscere la conversione ortodossa eseguita da Rabbi Haskel Lookstein,
che aveva precedentemente rifiutato.
Lookstein è il rabbino di New York che ha assistito la
figlia di Donald Trump Ivanka nella sua conversione al giudaismo
La conseguenza è questa : i quattro convertiti non sono riconosciuti come ebrei
in Israele, ma sono considerati tali negli Usa .
ITIM, organizzazione di Gerusalemme , ha chiesto al Gran Rabbinato di intervenire.
"E' inaccettabile , contraria alla legge religiosa e al senso comune rifiutare, senza motivazione, le conversioni riconosciute dai più importanti
esperti legali religiosi della diaspora, che ovviamente non le dispensano con leggerezza " L' ITIM chiede che il Rabbinato cambi le sue politiche e pubblichi i
suoi protocolli per il riconoscimento delle conversioni straniere ".
Il Rabbinato israeliano ha risposto che giudica ogni singolo caso nella propria specificità . "
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate
recently refused to recognize conversions that were authorized by the
chief judge of the largest Orthodox rabbinical court in the United
States.
In
four cases, the Rabbinate did not explain why it rejected the
conversions approved by Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, the head of the Beth
Din of America and the chief presiding rabbinical judge, or dayan, of
the National Beth Din of the Rabbinical Council of America.
The
Rabbinate has often put up barriers to foreign rabbis who are outside
of the ultra-Orthodox world, often refusing to accept conversions that
they have performed or authorized.
In
response to a suit in Jerusalem District court by ITIM, an advocacy
organization that helps people navigate Israel’s rabbinical bureaucracy,
in April the Chief Rabbinate issued a list
of foreign rabbis whose conversions and authority on manners of
personal status it recognizes. This week, after a public uproar, the
Rabbinate agreed to recognize the Orthodox conversion performed by Rabbi
Haskel Lookstein, after previously refusing to do so. Lookstein is
famously the New York rabbi who helped Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka in
her conversion to Judaism.
The latest cases are of conversions performed over the past 30 years that Schwartz recently approved but did not perform.
In
2006, the New York publication The Jewish Week reported that the
Rabbinate had refused to accept conversions authorized by Schwartz, but
more recently it has reversed that position.
Documents
obtained by Haaretz indicate that Itamar Tubul, the head of the Chief
Rabbinate’s conversion and family law department refused to approve
recent conversion documents on three occasions. In a fourth case he
approved a conversion but was overruled by the Rabbinate. In none of the
cases was a substantive reason for the refusal given. In one case Tubul
wrote that further examination was needed of the approval by a third
party who was not part of the conversion process and the convert’s
integration into the community’s Jewish life. The result is that four
converts are not recognized as Jews in Israel even though they went
through an Orthodox conversion and are considered to be Jews in
religious circles in the United States. It should be noted that Tubul
approved the conversion recognition of the mother of one of the
converts, who was converted by the same rabbi on the same day, again
with no explanation.
ITIM,
which is representing the four converts, has asked the Chief Rabbinate
to intervene. “This reality, in which converts are rejected without
reason, even while holding approval letters from one of the most
important religious legal experts in the Diaspora, who obviously did not
dispense them lightly, is contrary to religious law and to common sense
and is unacceptable,” said ITIM head Rabbi Seth Farber. He is demanding
that the Rabbinate change its policies and publish its protocols for
recognizing overseas conversions together with its list of approved
rabbis for conducting or confirming conversions.”
In
a response, the Rabbinate said it judges each case on its merits.
“There are no sweeping approvals or rejections of conversions performed
by any rabbi.”
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