Rabbi Seth Farber
Israel’s proposed international Jewish database raises red flags abroad
By Yonat Shimron — April 11, 2017
JERUSALEM (RNS) Many fear such a database will not recognize the legitimacy of most Jews, will breach confidentiality and, in the wrong hands, could be used in sinister ways.
Ivanka Trump and other Orthodox Jewish converts to fall under new guidelines
By Lauren Markoe — December 9, 2016
(RNS) Israel's two chief rabbis are promising new guidelines that will make it possible to determine whether a conversion performed outside of Israel would be valid in their eyes.
US rabbis outraged by Israeli rabbinical court’s treatment of convert
By Yonat Shimron — July 14, 2016
(RNS) The woman who was identified publicly as “Nicole” underwent an Orthodox conversion by New York Rabbi Haskel Lookstein in May 2015.
Israeli rabbinical court questions authority of US rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump
By Yonat Shimron — July 6, 2016
(RNS) Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun is considered one of the most respected modern-Orthodox rabbis in the world and converted Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter, to Judaism.
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