Reform Convert Make Aliyah?

[branny]

Reform Convert Make Aliyah?

Can a person convert reform in california and be eligible for aliyah in israel?

 

[odelial]

Yes

once he lived one year after the conversion while belonging to a Jewish community and the rabbi of the community can vouch for it.

 

[yeshtikva]

No longer a year

There was a Supreme Court judgement on March 31 about various issues around conversion. One of the decisions made was that there is no longer a waiting period for converts.

 

[odelial]

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Although the Supreme Court ruled on that, the ruling applies only to people who learned in Israel but made the giur abroad, not to people who made the whole giur process including learning – abroad. That means – that only people who learned In Israel and went away for the giur itself, do not have to wait a year. But, Misrad Hapnim checks every one on a case by case basis, it is not automatically. I

 

[yeshtikva]

Not the case

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1112322005829&p=1078027574097 By Dan Izenberg …Nicole Maor, the attorney who represented the Israel Religious Action Center and the World Union of Progressive Judaism in the High Court petition, told The Jerusalem Post that very few people will be affected by Thursday's decision. …Maor added that the ruling would help non-Jews living abroad who had converted to Judaism and wanted to immigrate immediately to Israel. In the context of the state's policy until now, such converts had to live for a year in the community in which they converted before they could come here and obtain citizenship under the Law of Return. She estimated that there will be about 50 such people each year who will no longer have to wait.