The danger in the High Court ruling is the ability of many foreign workers and refugees to undergo "instant conversion," not out of adherence to Judaism but out of a desire for citizenship in Israel • Opinion
The natural tendency of all Jews rooted to shout Hamas - how the High Court intervenes in a religious process, or as one of the headlines on an ultra-Orthodox website: "A shocking and dramatic decision - the High Court recognized the Reform and Conservative conversion."
But no, friends, the High Court addressed only the aspect of the Law of Return.
The Knesset of Israel was not the first in the matter, the Knesset of Israel in 1970 ruled that the right of aliyah and by virtue of citizenship is granted to every "Jew" and in section 4B of the law, the legislature states that "for the purposes of this law -" Jew " ".
Chairman of Religious Zionism Smutrich attacks the High Court ruling on the issue of Reform and Conservative conversion
It is not for nothing that the Knesset did not record in this definition - those who converted correctly - as the religious parties demanded at the time, but the language of the law as stated "whoever was born a Jewish mother or converted" To (provided that they converted to Judaism within a recognized community) as entitled to immigration and citizenship under the Law of Return.
What was renewed in the High Court ruling yesterday, which will also apply to those who converted in these frameworks within the State of Israel. Has economic benefits from their countries of origin.
In my role as director of an organization that prepares for conversion, I receive such inquiries on a daily basis from foreign workers who show their "great love for Judaism" and when I explain to them that private conversion will not grant them citizenship, they disappear ... and now the path to citizenship is paved.
In the political constellations of the Likud governments, it was theoretically possible to obtain a majority to change the law and determine that those entitled to the Law of Return would only be those who converted properly, but no government since the Likud came to power has done so.
In its ruling yesterday, the president of the Supreme Court, Hayut, also writes that "... this is a civil-public question and not a religious question, and since the legislature has not ruled on it for more than 15 years, we saw no escape from ruling on petitions. Additional content or other to the concept of conversion in the Law of Return, as you see fit. "
To the attention of those who will carry the title of MK in the 24th Knesset in a few months. According to the people, the High Court has "raised it to the ground" and there is no reason to shout to the sky, instead of just opening your eyes.
You have the right to vote reading these things, while in a few weeks the power is in your hands - if you want to shape the Law of Return and the Law of Conversion that will fit the consensus in Israeli communities since Ruth the Moabite, and that citizenship will be given only to those for whom conversion is Give your vote only to a party that sits in a coalition that strives for it.
The author is the director of the organization "Personal Conversion Join My People
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