Rabbi Seth Farber

Conversion data in Israel points to a ‘deficient’ state-run process, says advocacy group

Israel spends more money for fewer Jews-by-choice.

By Marcy Oster June 6, 2019 3:20 pm

Opinion

The Chief Rabbinate’s blacklist isn’t defending Judaism. It’s undermining it.

Distrust of the Diaspora is a manifestation of a systemic failure of Israel's religious bureaucracy, writes the director of Itim: The Jewish Advocacy Center.

July 10, 2017 12:19 pm

200 protest at Chief Rabbinate’s office over rejection of Lookstein conversion

The demonstrators gathered at the start of a hearing appealing a ruling by the Petach Tikvah rabbinical court not to recognize a conversion by a prominent New York Orthodox rabbi.

July 6, 2016 2:33 pm