Yated metes out cautious criticism at Yosef, Amar

Haredi-Lithuanian newspaper Yated Ne’eman on Sunday expressed “shock, as well as pained and utter protest over the desecration of approving thousands of military ‘conversions,’” in its inevitable reaction to the Friday decision of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, to declare disputed past IDF conversions kosher.

Following Yosef’s ruling, Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar on the same day issued the necessary document to authorize some 4,500 such conversions, which were lacking his signature.

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