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The founder of a powerful American group that seeks to enforce a tough stance on conversions has abruptly resigned.
Leib Tropper, a strictly Orthodox rabbi who founded the New York-based Eternal Jewish Family, said he was stepping down last weekend to "pursue a variety of other interests".
In the past week, images appeared on several Jewish blogs showing posters on display in Orthodox neighbourhoods of Jerusalem accusing him of indiscretions.[...]
The founder of a powerful American group that seeks to enforce a tough stance on conversions has abruptly resigned.
Leib Tropper, a strictly Orthodox rabbi who founded the New York-based Eternal Jewish Family, said he was stepping down last weekend to "pursue a variety of other interests".
In the past week, images appeared on several Jewish blogs showing posters on display in Orthodox neighbourhoods of Jerusalem accusing him of indiscretions.[...]
"Rabbi Seth Farber, the director of ITIM, an Israeli-based organisation that supports people going through conversion, said: “Rabbi Tropper was an important force because he got the ultra Orthodox community to recognise that conversion is a legitimate way of addressing the challenges of intermarriage and assimilation in the US."
ReplyDeleteWill the religion once known as Judaism ever exist again in the US?
Sorry Rav Eidensohn, but as long as there is money in the coffers of EJF (or whatever new name they will choose) there will be rabbis willing to fill positions there.
ReplyDeleteI think Rav Farber was too kind.
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