Sephardi, Ashkenazi split on converts

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef backed Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar, in charge of conversions in Israel, in Rabbi Amar’s not madly stringent approach to conversion. In contrast, ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi community’s rabbis demand evermore stringent conversions, beyond absurdity. Ashkenazi rabbinical court recently nixed hundreds of past conversions by Israel’s Conversion Authority, and Shas MKs moved Olmert to essentially fire the Conversion Authority’s head Rabbi Druckman.