Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent: Sephardic Chief Rabbi comes under fire over conversions
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Title:This is Pikuach Nefesh, people!
Name:Michael
City: PhiladelphiaState: Pennsylvania
The state of Israel needs as many Jews as it can get if it wants to maintain a Jewish majority. It`s a simple matter of comparative birthrates and extrapolation.

By holding such historically unprecedented strictures as to who we call Jewish, the rabbinical authorities will soon lead the way to no more Jewish homeland. This is pikuach nefesh for the State of Israel!