[Avodah] conversion monitoring

[Arie Folger via Avodah]

>From the press articles I gather that there wasn't a very long break
between the mother's conversion and the daughter's birth. Could it be that
the mother was already pregnant, and the daughter is thus considered an
independent convert, so that at issue are
a) Whether the original Beit Din exercised due diligence in establishing
that it really was a zekhut for the child of such a family to convert;
b) What standards should be applied to establish that a minor who converted
is considered not to have objected to the yoke of Judaism upon reaching
majority.

These are extremely weighty issues and I wish the Beit Din haGadol would
submit the question to many gedolim and deal with the question on both a
practical and theoretical level, to clarify the halakha. Right now it
unfortunately looks murky and gives the Chief Rabbinate a bad name, as it
seems arbitrary. This is probably not about monitoring continued
observance, but about setting minimal expectations for the bat mitzvah of a
minor convert.

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Yours sincerely,
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Arie Folger
blogging at http://www.rabbifolger.net/
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