<p dir="ltr">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<br>
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;<br>
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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">--<br>
Yours sincerely,<br>
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Arie Folger<br>
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