Israel’s religious conservatives have spent the week warning of nonexistent conversion drives among migrants and foreigners, while ignoring the conversion crisis closer to home

Referring to outrage over video implying non-Orthodox streams would even recognize dogs as Jewish, Gafni says he'd have made a 'much worse' clip featuring foreign workers

UTJ chairman says MK Yitzhak Pindrus was wrong to use the pejorative term, but insists ultra-Orthodox rabbis should be the authority on conversions to Judaism

Moshe Nissim, who proposed conversion reform, blames Chief Rabbinate and Haredi parties for High Court recognition of Reform and Conservative conversions done in Israel

Moshe Nissim, a former justice minister, says decision recognizing Reform and Conservative conversions done in Israel was the result of stonewalling by opponents of earlier changes

Yitzhak Pindrus of UTJ party sparks outcry after suggesting soldiers who convert during service aren't Jewish and families of those who marry them should go into mourning

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Two movements that make up majority of US Jews, express hope that move will lead to their integration in Israeli society; Orthodox Union, JFNA, Conference of Presidents silent

With bombshell decision, justices bring to an end decades of ambivalence regarding the status of non-Orthodox Judaism in Israel. But the final word has not yet been said

Few converts are likely to be affected by the High Court's decision, but the court itself may face renewed calls on the right to weaken its powers