Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mhuxv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!mhuxv!segs From: segs@mhuxv.UUCP (slusky) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Law of Return Message-ID: <164@mhuxv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 10:13:45 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxv.164 Posted: Mon Aug 20 10:13:45 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 00:14:40 EDT Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 19 With respect to the fuss going on about the religious parties in Israel demanding that the Law of Return be changed to exclude those converted by Reform or Conservative rabbis: I thought that this was already how it operated and that such a convert would have to figure on going to mikveh again in Israel if he or she intended to get Israeli citizenship based on the Law of Return. In fact, I would have guessed that even if one were converted by an Orthodox rabbi in the Diaspora, that rather than go through the hassle of checking up on the conversion and on the rabbi's credentials, a second trip to the mikveh would be required. Are they just demanding that current practice be made more explicit in the law or is my understanding of how things work now all wrong? Susan Slusky mhuxv!segs -- mhuxv!segs