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Limiting Prague Conversions

by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The Vaad Haolami LeInyonei Giyur founded by HaRav Chaim Kreiswirth zt"l met with CER representatives to relate serious faults in conversions performed in various part of Europe, particularly Prague, where a group of so-called rabbis from Eretz Yisroel operates a wholesale conversion apparatus in the city under the aegis of a local rabbi.

Although the Chief Rabbinate of Israel issued a letter stating these conversions are not recognized, the group continues to travel to Prague to engage in false conversions. Today the Jewish community in Prague is so small and weak that performing proper halachically-binding conversions is nearly impossible since the city lacks a suitable framework for Jewish life.

The Vaad Haolami LeInyonei Giyur was unable to participate in the CER conference, but leading CER figures agreed to have all local figures sign an agreement, like the one recently signed in Riga, pledging that conversion issues would be handled only at an upstanding beis din under CER supervision and Prague rabbis would prevent other figures from dealing with conversion affairs in the city.

 

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