People who are insincere enough to return to their former religion (or non-religion) after a conversion to Judaism make me very angry and frustrated! These people make those of use who are sincere converts look like frauds and make life even more difficult for us.
Legal Opinion: Rabbinical Court Can Invalidate Conversion
(IsraelNN.com) Counsel for the Rabbinical Court System, Rabbi Atty. Shimon Yaakobi, determined in a formal legal opinion that rabbinical courts have the authority to rule on the validity of conversions to Judaism, provided that the conversion issue is raised in the context of marriage or divorce proceedings. In Israel, marriage and divorce matters fall under the jurisdiction of the relevant religious courts.
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Under Jewish law, as Yaakobi detailed, fraudulent conversions can be declared in the case of a convert who returns to his or her former lifestyle or rejects Judaic law shortly after the conversion. In such a case, even when the convert was deemed sincere at the time of conversion by a rabbinical conversion court, the legal status of the individual becomes, at best, questionable. Therefore, the person may be required to obtain a formal Jewish bill of divorce on the one hand, but may not be allowed to marry a Jew on the other.
[...] I initially wrote about the issue of invalidation conversions in Israel here. [...]
[...] initially wrote about the issue of invalidation conversions in Israel here and [...]