Israeli Cabinet minister Ya’acov Ne’eman is on a two-week tour of the United States to convince American Jews that his committee’s proposal to resolve the conversion crisis is not dead. Reform and Conservative leaders had expressed outrage after the Chief Rabbinate apparently rejected working together on a joint conversion training institute. The Ne’eman Committee had proposed that the Orthodox rabbinate retain sole jurisdiction over conversions in Israel, and that non-Orthodox rabbis be allowed to participate along with Orthodox rabbis in an institute to prepare prospective converts to Judaism.
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