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in Israel — which, like the Re-
form movement, performs con-
versions that do not have official
recognition — says that about
half of its converts report that
when they tried to go through
the rabbinical courts, they were
approached by macherim for
bribes.
Anat Galili, spokeswoman for
the Reform movement in Israel,
says the macherim are well-
known among immigrants from
the former Soviet Union, some
100,000 of whom are not Jewish
according to Jewish law.
One Soviet immigrant, whose
father was Jewish but whose
mother was not, went through
the rabbinical court's conversion
process for about a year, study-
ing Jewish laws and mitzvot at
a school set up by the chief rab-
binate. When told by the court to
move with her children into the
home of an observant family, the
woman balked and sought the
services of a macher. She says
she paid him $6,000, and three
weeks later received a conver-
sion certificate and an ID card
marked "Jewish."
Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, direc-
tor of the rabbinical courts, says
he has looked into the issue and
found that rabbinical judges are
not involved in the "quickie" con-
version-for-pay scam. "There
might be one or two such cases
in the space of 10 years," he says.
One Soviet
immigrant says she
paid $6,000 and
received a
certificate three
weeks later.
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The Orthodox establishment
is at once turning against Rabbi
Dushinsky and Rabbi Bar-Zohar,
and defending the religious court
conversions. Minister of Labor
and Welfare Eli Yis. hai of the
Shas (Sephardi Orthodox) par-
ty, suspended Dushinsky from
his post, saying: "I am shocked
at the actions exposed in the me-
dia. There is no place in the sys-
tem for an employee who stinks
it up." The Haredi or "black hat"
newspaper Yom Hashishi re-
ported that the Supreme Rab-
binical Court recommended
sanctioning Rabbi Bar-Zohar a
year ago after finding that he
provided false evidence in the
conversion of two workers from
the Philippines.
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investigation is just beginning.
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