The chairman of ‘Religious Zionism’, MK Bezalel Smutrich, in an attack against the conversion reform of Minister Matan Kahana: The full interview, tomorrow on the program ‘Closing a week with Yishai Cohen’.
He said: “What is important about the conversion is that there will be a uniform halakhic ruling of one body so that, God forbid, no genealogical books and marital problems will be created here in future generations.
“The one who is authorized for this ruling is only the chief rabbinate, and by the way I heard this morning Rabbi Meidan, who is supposedly the halakhic figure of Minister Kahana, who said that the body that will ultimately decide is the rabbinate.”
I want to correct you and say that in Matan Kahana’s reform he writes that a rabbinical committee will be set up to formulate the rules of procedure for local rabbis, and when I asked the minister’s office I was told that these were a kind of criteria
“I understand what you are saying, but pay attention to the fraud that exists here. Procedures are not the law itself but rules of court hours and how the parties are summoned, so if at the end the rabbinate is the one to determine the halakhic issue, including enforcement against those who do not rule according to halakhic law, “I have no problem with that, but if they take out all sorts of parts, such as the conversion of minors, and put the matter under the supervision of a rabbinical committee, or anything that would destroy the uniform halakhic authority, I will oppose it because it destroys the conversion.”
as mentioned, The full interview, tomorrow on the program ‘Closing a week with Yishai Cohen’