Tel-Chai Nation

It's bizarre enough, to be sure, when people who supposedly follow Judaist customs want to convert wholesale, but that's the situation in the USA, if anywhere, and there's rabbinical courts who're now deciding to reject any who side with anti-Israel movements:

Leading rabbis in the United States and Israel are contemplating whether to prohibit Jewish conversion for individuals who have participated in anti-Israel demonstrations. In recent months, multiple rabbis, primarily in the US, have grappled with the issue of converting individuals who display clear anti-Israel sentiments yet seek to join the Jewish faith, forcing them to decide whether this constitutes a deal-breaker. While no actual ban has been implemented on any specific protester to date, such a decision appears to be imminent.

Rabbi Elchanan Poupko, a prominent young rabbi in the United States, has delved deeply into this question. He recently approached both chief rabbis, Rabbi Kalman Ber and Rabbi David Yosef, with this inquiry. Simultaneously, he consulted several well-known rabbis in Israel, with Rabbi David Stav explicitly ruling that such individuals should not be converted.

"In the past year, a renewed wave of hatred toward Israel has swept the world," Rabbi Poupko wrote to the chief rabbis. He noted that these individuals are effectively Israel-haters, even though they "claim they don't hate Israel and that all their talk stems from compassion for the Palestinian people and their desire to help them." These protesters "demonstrate in front of synagogues, study halls, and Jewish schools, harass Israelis, assault them, and engage in various other forms of persecution, as well as write about Israel as if they were evil murderers, blood libels similar to what Israel-haters did in previous generations."

Rabbi Poupko mentioned that at least one rabbinical court in the US encountered a case where an individual who participated in anti-Israel protests sought conversion, raising questions about the process.

"While they accepted the commandments to live as an observant Jew, and the court found no fault in their observance of Sabbath, kosher laws, and so forth, they discovered the individual had participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations and questioned whether this fact diminishes the acceptance of this person as a convert," he wrote.

The reason, according to him, is that since this person actively harms Jews, they distance themselves from Judaism, even if they are willing to accept the religious laws. "By choosing to participate with Israel's enemies against the majority of the Jewish people who live in the Land of Israel, even though they said 'your God is my God,' it is nevertheless inconceivable to convert them."

A vital point can also be made that if the alleged converts see nothing wrong with barbarism as embodied by Islam, that's another reason to shun them, since it contradicts Judaism's values entirely, right down to the 10 Commandments' opposition to murder. To be sure, these specific individuals are likely trying to convert in order to destroy the Judaist religion from within, and that's why they're dangerous. If they don't abandon support for blood libel propaganda against Israel along with acceptance of barbarism and sexual violence, they cannot be accepted as converts.

Rabbi Poupko, who has dealt extensively with this issue, wrote an article on the subject that is expected to be published in the Techumin journal. In the article, he noted, "There is no doubt that the rabbinical court has been given authority to accept or reject the convert based on their understanding of the worldview and commandments that the convert accepts upon themselves, and to what extent they believe they will continue on the path of Torah and commandments after conversion." Therefore, "Since this convert who demonstrates against Israel comes before a more general rabbinical court, the court can tell them that their worldview is not their worldview... they can and must tell them that they cannot accept them."

In such a case, he suggested, that convert is invited to go to a rabbinical court of ultra-Orthodox groups that oppose Israel, such as Satmar or Neturei Karta, and they will make the decision. "It's impossible to accept both positions. They cannot follow the conditions of Jewish law and customs of the Satmar Hasidic movement while also opposing the Jewish people's residence in their land."

It looks like he may have made a slight goof there, since the Satmar - and especially Neturei Karta - would be more than delighted to recruit people with views hostile to Israel. Come to think of it, it wouldn't be shocking if some women who're anti-Israel would have no issue with customs like shaving the hair off their heads and relying on wigs instead, and they'd probably see it coinciding perfectly with recent woke mentalities on the left like taking up an uglified body. In which case, one could say they deserve each other.

Anyway, when it comes to converts who do recognize why barbarism is wrong, the rabbinical courts would do well to make the Judaist religion look welcome in the sense that women should not have to dress modestly, and can seek careers in fashion modeling, dance, music singing and stuff like that without acting like it's inherently wrong. After all, if anybody wishes to let women know they respect their femininity, the above point is an important one for how to do so. Orthodox Judaists would do well to remember that.

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