Friday, March 8, 1985
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Rabbis Debate
Conversion Of
Ethiopian Jews
Jerusalem (JTA) — The con-
troversy over whether the
thousands of Ethiopian Jews who
recently immigrated to Israel
must undergo Lehumra
a form
of conversion ritual — was
heightened over the weekend
when Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi
Avraham Shapiro sharply
criticized two former Chief Rabbis
for maintaining it was not re-
quired.
Chief Rabbi Shapiro said in an
interview published in the reli-
gious daily Hatzofe that he could
not understand why former Chief
Rabbis Shlomo Goren
(Ashkenazic) and Ovadia Yosef
(Sephardic) have reversed what
he claimed was their own long-
standing positions on the issue.
According to Rabbi Shapiro the
conversion requirement for
Ethiopian Jews was upheld by all
past Chief Rabbis of Israel and is
the universal view of Torah schol-
ars abroad.
Rabbis Goren and Yosef, in
separate public statements, have
disagreed with a recent ruling by
the ten-man Chief Rabbinate
Council which has caused anger
and distress among the Ethiopian
emigres. The council, meeting
under the chairmanship of Rabbi
Shapiro and Sephardic Chief
Rabbi Mordechai Eliahu, held
that the newly arrived Ethiopian
Jews must undergo ritual immer-
sion and swear a formal undertak-
ing to observe halachah — reli-
gious law.
The council agreed that the
males need not undergo bloodlet-
ting, symbolic of circumcision, in-
asmuch as all Ethiopian Jews
have been circumcized. Rabbis
Goren and Yosef, citing rabbinic
sages of the past, declared that the
Ethiopians are fully Jewish and
require no conversion, symbolic or
otherwise.
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