[Avodah] Court retroactively revokes conversions

[Daniel Eidensohn]

R' s kadish wrote:
> 2. "Russians" are not "stam goyim". There is a Torah obligation to
> encourage those with a personal connection to the Jewish people to
> formally join it through gerut. Especially for people who are born into
> Jewish families ("zera yisrael"), identify as Jews, and have even suffered
> anti-Semitism (and quite a few have). Or who are married to Jews. This
> in not just the opinion of Rav Uzziel and those cited above, but also of
> many Ashkenazic poskim in modern times such as Rav Azriel Hildesheimer,
> and is widely accepted (including to the best of my knowledge by the RCA).
>
>   
Would love to have a clear source that it is a Torah obligation to 
proselytize "zera yisroel" or all the other groups you mentioned. Where 
does Rav Uzziel and Rav Hildesheimer state such a position - and where 
is the confirmation that contemporary poskim agree with it?


 I assume that you would agree with the goals of Kulanu 
<http://www.kulanu.org/>  and some other organization which try to 
convert all those possibly descended from Spanish Jewish or marrano's , 
the Ugandans who  converted themselves to Judaism in the early 1900's as 
rebellion against the Britsh and suffered anti-semitism at then hand of 
Idi Amin etc etc., 

This hashkofa is precisely the point of dispute between the chareidi 
poskim and the Religious Zionists. It interesting to note that Rav 
Shlomo Riskin wrote an article rejecting the position of Rav Uziel/Rav 
Marc Angel in Tradition back in 1974. Therefore it would be helpful if 
you provided more specific sources for this approach.

Daniel Eidensohn