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Major Conference on Universally Accepted Conversions in Intermarriage Opens in Boston on 10/18/2006
October 18, 2006
For Immediate Release
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Boston…A major national conference on Universally Accepted Conversions in Intermarriage opens on Sunday October 29th at the Hyatt Harborside Hotel in Boston. The three-day conference is a follow-up to the highly successful conclaves held in March in Hollywood, Florida, and the International conference that took place in July in Jerusalem The conferences have for the first time gathered more than 500 rabbinic authorities from across the Orthodox spectrum in forming common ground on a growing number of intermarried couples that opt for a universally accepted conversion.
The series of conferences is sponsored by the Eternal Jewish Family and the Lillian Jean Kaplan Jewish Pride Through Education Project of Horizons, an internationally recognized institute of Jewish education and outreach based in Monsey, New York.
According to Rabbi Leib Tropper, dean of Yeshiva Kol Yaakov in Monsey, NY, this third national conference on Universally Accepted Conversions in Intermarriage ”will continue the process of bringing together the foremost Torah authorities for the purpose of uniting behind halachic standards that will be used throughout the world.” He noted that participants at the Boston conference will hear major presentations from leading Torah authorities from the US, Europe and Israel.
Amongst the topics to be discussed are The qualifications for a Dayan Sitting on a Beis Din for Intermarriage Conversions, Compromising Halacha in the Name of Kiruv and its Impact on Intermarriage Conversions; and the validity of a Convert in an Intermarriage who is No Longer Observant. The program will also include an address by Nathan Lewin, noted Washington Constitutional Attorney on “How Courts Feel About Universally Accepted Conversions.”
Israel’s Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar will lead a distinguished delegation of leading rabbis from Israel that will include Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Simcha Hakohen Kook, Chief Rabbi of Rehovot, Rabbi Nachum Eisenstein, Chief Dayan, Beis Din L’Giur of Jerusalem; Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi; Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva Ateres Yisroel; and Rabbi Shmuel Lazer Stern; Chief Dayan, Beit Din of Harav Shmuel Wosner Shlita, Bnei Brak.
Other major presentations at the conference will be delivered by Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Horowitz, the Bostoner Rebbe; Rabbi Reuven Feinstein, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva of Staten Island; Rabbi Herschel Schachter; Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva University; Harav Aharon Feldman; Rosh Yeshiva, Ner Yisroel, Baltimore; Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt; Chief Rabbi of Moscow; Rabbi Yaacov Zev Katz; Rosh Kollel Yad Chaim Mordechai, Cleveland; Rabbi Mordechai Neugroschel; Noted International Author and Lecturer; Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik; Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshivas Brisk of Chicago; and Rabbi Leib Tropper, Rosh Hayeshiva, Yeshiva Kol Yaakov. The conference chairman will be Marvin Jacob, Esq., Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Partner and the co-chairmen will be Malcolm Hoenlein, Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and Nachman Auerbach, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. The Master of Ceremonies will be David Rosengard, Esq. of Boston.
Tom Kaplan, and his nephew Guma Kaplan Aguiar, Co-chairmen of the Lillian Jean Kaplan Jewish Pride Through Education Project, said that “the extraordinary interest by rabbis from disparate backgrounds who have bought into the EJF program is nothing short of an historic effort to preserve the Jewish family.” To accommodate the large demand of rabbis wishing to attend the Boston conference, EJF upgraded to a larger conference room, increasing maximum capacity by over one third.
Founded in 1995, EJF/Horizons provides comprehensive programming aimed at people of all ages who may be searching for answers to life’s most difficult questions. The programs offered through Horizons provide meaningful and rich ways of responding to these issues based on Torah values and leading to fuller more active Jewish lives.
For more information regarding future conferences please contact 866-504-6749