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Conversion

Minutes of Israel Diaspora Trust Working Party on Jewish Status Meeting

Meeting originally held on 27 July 1989 at The Montagu Centre. THE ISRAEL DIASPORA TRUST WORKING PARTY ON JEWISH STATUS 27 July 1989 Present: Judge Israel Finestein QC, Rabbi Hugo Gryn, Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, Dr Lionel Kopelowitz, Rabbi Dr Abraham ... Continue Reading ➨

The Conversion Problem and the New London Synagogue

Paper written in 1976. This communication does not deal with the wider question of intermarriage or of Judaism as a missionary religion. Its concern is with the severely practical and immediate problem facing a would-be convert to Judaism or a ... Continue Reading ➨

Minutes of a joint Beth Din working party meeting

DRAFT Minutes of the first meeting of the Beth Din Working Party held at the New London Synagogue on Monday, 14th July 1975. Present: Rabbis Henry Goldstein, Louis Jacobs, Michael Leigh, Marcel Marcus, Dow Marmur and Michael Standfield. ... Continue Reading ➨

Questions of Personal Status

Originally published in New London Forum: Journal of the New London Synagogue, 1:2 (September 1983). The Editorial Board is most grateful to the Congregation for the welcome it accorded to the first issue and now places before it a symposium on ... Continue Reading ➨

Why Masorti marriages are valid

Originally published in November 1995. After a number of unhelpful and ambiguous statements by the Chief Rabbi’s office regarding the validity of marriages and conversions carried out under the aegis of Masorti synagogues, there is still much ... Continue Reading ➨

Comment on the Brichto Proposals

Originally published in the Jewish Law Annual, vol. 8 (1989): 253-8. Proposals on the lines suggested by Rabbi Brichto, to be acceptable to Orthodoxy, must first be shown to have halakhic validity. Granted their basic premiss that halakhah is an ... Continue Reading ➨

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