Giyur K’halacha, Summer 2015

Giyur K’Halacha is a newly established network of independent rabbinical courts that is adjudicating conversions of qualifying individuals in accordance with Orthodox Jewish law. The project was formally launched by a group of Modern Orthodox activist organizations in August 2015. Click this button for media resources (English and Hebrew) related to its launch.

News Sources

English

• August 13, 2015, Ynet, Rabbi Seth Farber, ‘A tolerant and traditional Jewish approach toward modernity’
• August 13, 2015, The Jerusalem Post, Rabbi Uri Regev, ‘Conversion – Time to go beyond the rhetoric’
• November 13, 2014, JTA, Rabbis Avi Weiss and Marc Angel, ‘Centralizing authority on conversions hurts converts’

Hebrew

• August 16, 2015, nrg, Mindy Grosman, ‘The founder of the conversion courts: “The rabbis will be held accountable (by God)”‘ (about Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch)
• August 18, 2015, Kipa, Rabbi Dov Lipman, There’s no halakhic problem whatsoever in converting the children of olim
• August 10, 2015, Kipa, Interview with Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
• August 18, 2015, Srugim, Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, Rav Kook would not have accepted these alternative conversions

Primary Sources

Hebrew

• Rabbi Haim Amsalem’s (2014) ‘Too blind to see: Tradition of halakhic rulings on matters of conversion’
• Rabbi Chuck Davidson’s (2015) compilation of lenient rabbinic rulings on conversion over the course of Jewish history
• Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch’s (1996) ‘The conversion of minors in our time’
• The Zomet Institute (2014), ‘Conversion of minors with Christian or Secular mothers, sources against and for