An urgent memo was issued by the director of the special conversion courts in the rabbinical court system, Rabbi Eliyahu Maimon to all marriage registrars in the country to be aware of the possibility of non-Jewish prospective spouses presenting phony documents of conversion. The conversion court heads called for rabbinical marriage registrars to insist upon authenticated and original documentation of conversion when one of the people seeking rabbinate authorization was not born Jewish.
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Yeah, but now they don’t even recognize most conversions, so what does this mean? Someone could be Halachically Jewish, but not from the “approved” list. Would they consider that conversion “fraudulent?”
Motcha:
not so, because if it’s not on the list, the beis din can check up on the converting B”D, and find out if they’re legit.
So there are now two levels of acceptable girus?
Level one: those on the list.
Level two: those not on the list but kosher.
So what’s the difference?