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From the blog of Kenneth Brander at The Times of Israel

Rabbi Reuven Taragin’s lengthy essay on the current conversion controversy in Israel (“The Conversion Controversy,” February 17, 2022) requires one small correction.

As told to Barbara Bensoussan by Yehoshua Parker It was the summer of 2002, and I’d been learning for a month in the beginners’ program of a kiruv yeshivah in Jerusalem. The content was interesting, but I wasn’t yet sold on Torah Judaism. Then I found myself at the Kosel Plaza at the close of Tishah B’Av, wedged among thousands of Jews praying and singing. Suddenly, I felt overwhelmed by a profound sense of clarity and connection. All the classes I’d attended came alive for me — To...

The 5 Towns Jewish Times December 17, 2020 The kallah teacher received an unexpected call. A young lady had engaged her to prepare her in halachah. And now, the young lady’s would-be mother-in-law was on the phone. The woman said, “Our side is about to break-off this shidduch. We have been made aware that the young lady is a kleptomaniac. This is not something that we wish to deal with in our family. We do not wish even to risk it. On the other hand, we did not wish to listen to...