Avi: Several batei din had researched the matter and determined that Borokovsky was a legitimate ger. Goren’s “psak” was a blatant political move (his stance on geirus was otherwise much more lenient). It’s not for nothing that the gedolim completely passeled Goren as a posek, including gedolim who otherwise generally stayed away from such controversies, such as R’ Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and R’ Moshe Feinstein.
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