Forward editor Jane Eisner wins Twersky Award Eisner was tapped for the 2015 David Twersky Journalism Award for an editorial calling for an easing of the Jewish conversion process.
Chief rabbi says he won’t validate municipal rabbis’ conversions Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef vowed to block the conversions, despite a government directive recognizing conversions performed by municipal rabbis.
New project to help olim begin conversion process before aliyah Only a third of all immigrants to Israel, or olim, in the last decade from former Soviet countries are halachically Jewish or able to prove that they are after they immigrate.