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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef : “Conversion Courts are too stringent”
“The Talmud (Sanhedrin 99-100) relates that the patriarch Abraham rejected Timna, who wished to become his concubine. Instead, Timna married Eliphaz, Abraham’s great-grandson through Esau, and gave birth to Amalek, the Jewish people’s archenemy.” Jpost
The controversy surrounding the giyur beis din headed by Rav Chaim Druckman continues, with much misinformation and disinformation circulating. Over recent days, both the chareidi print and electronic media have reported that Maran Hagon Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita and HaRav Aryeh Leib Shteinman Shlita have come out against the conversions performed by Rav Druckman, stating the people who have undergone conversions by Rav Druckman’s beis din are “goyim l’kol davar” – non-Jews in every sense of the word. Other reports add that this position was also accepted by Maran HaRav Ovadia Yosef Shlita and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar Shlita, who serves as the supreme voice on the Chief Rabbinate’s Rabbinical Supreme Court. TheYeshivaWorld