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RCA COMMITTEE COMPLETES HISTORIC REVIEW OF CONVERSION PROCESSES
Membership Receives Recommendations Enthusiastically Following
Emotional Presentations, Leadership Committed to Swift
Implementation
Full Report and Recommendations Available for Public Review
NEW YORK, July 6, 2015
– The committee charged with reviewing the conversion processes
of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) for the purpose of
better serving conversion candidates has completed its task and
submitted a detailed report that was enthusiastically received
by the organization’s membership. This followed a series
of presentations by committee members at the RCA’s annual
convention – held June 29-July 1, 2015 in Tarrytown, New York –
that included a transparent discussion of the issues at hand, a
thorough presentation of the committee’s findings and
recommendations, and the deep emotion felt by those involved in
the review process.
The mandate of the committee – consisting of rabbis and other
community representatives – was to evaluate the entire system of
conversions in order to identify best practices, understand the
delivery of services from all perspectives and make
recommendations for establishing a “gold standard” process that
is professional, respectful and spiritually engaging. Over
a nine-month period, the committee paid attention to both the
issues and systems it found deficient, and those areas it found
to be appropriate and effective. Its 22–page report is
available to the public (click
here).
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