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MK Dov Lipman Wants No Rabbis in the Room

The Jerusalem Post reports: Yesh Atid MK Rabbi Dov Lipman called on the Ministry of Religious Services on Tuesday to allow women converting to Judaism to be given the choice of not having rabbinical judges in the room when she immerses in the mikvah, or ritual bath, an act which completes her conversion. Lipman said he was submitting the request to Deputy Minister of Religious Services Eli Eli Ben-Dahan after he spoke with a convert who was accidentally seen completely unclothed by the three rabbis when they walked into the room, before she could cover herself. Lipman said he discovered rabbinic sources which explain that the presence of men in the actual room is not an absolute requirement, and on the basis of his research issued his request to Ben-Dahan.

 

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