‘Your nation is my nation’: Reading the Book of Ruth - opinion
Ruth’s declaration are an important primary source for the validity of conversion to Judaism and its requirements.
THE LATE Rabbi Ovadia Yosef teaches a lesson at his home in Jerusalem, 2013. The rabbi ruled that in most cases a declaration of Jewish status is all that is required of olim, and investigations are not halachically necessary.(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)
