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Last update - 02:25 07/02/2008 PM, ministers approve recommendations on streamlined conversion By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: ehud olmert, judaism, israel  Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Ministers' Immigration Committee have approved recommendations submitted by a panel set up to examine the process of conversion to Judaism and recommend ways to facilitate it. Wednesday's approval was delayed five months because of objections by members of the ultra-Orthodox community and conversion rabbis. The recommendations include setting up a new conversion authority to ensure coordination and congruity between the conversion program and the conversion tribunals. Advertisement The panel also recommended that a conversion tribunals representative accompany the converts in the conversion preparation process, and to add 10 new rabbinical judges to the conversion tribunals. Since most of the obstacles encountered by conversion candidates result from excessive strictness imposed by rabbinical judges on observing religious rules and precepts, Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar intends to set up a rabbinical judges' panel to discuss complex cases. The recommendation to add dozens of volunteer rabbinical judges to the conversion tribunals to speed up their work has not been approved yet. Related articles: Yisrael Beiteinu drafts bill fast-tracking Jewish conversion Knesset conversion proposals slammed by Orthodox, Reform Zionist rabbis agree to serve on independent conversion courts More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us   Will power Shas Minister Yitzhak Cohen says only a complete Gaza power cut will bring results. The cost of security U.S. estimate: Preparing Palestinian security forces for statehood will cost $7 billion.   1.   Eli Yishai for PM 03:53  |  We needa religous PM 07/02/08   2.   Eli Yishai to for Taliban 07:25  |  We need him to go 07/02/08   3.   95 Percent Of Russians In Israel Aren`t Jews 09:07  |  Satmar Hasid 07/02/08   4.   How to make a problem into more of a Problem 11:12  |  sptZ 07/02/08   5.   act of desperation? haha! 12:18  |  yournamehere 07/02/08   6.   new president and pm 12:22  |  dreamer 07/02/08   7.   Horray for Olmert and Quick Conversions 13:51  |  Northern Nanny 07/02/08   8.   Converts 14:01  |  paul almo;nd 07/02/08   9.   This Is Just More Talk 15:49  |  Yaakov Sullivan 07/02/08   10.   "conversion" ? 17:05  |  flimflam 07/02/08   11.   immigration - emigration 17:06  |  justajew 07/02/08   12.   to 3, the position of the satmar rebbe 19:46  |  my name 07/02/08   13.   What are you waiting for???????? 20:21  |  David Burton 09/02/08

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