Rabbi Haim Druckman also says Ashkenazi haredim "won't let the facts confuse them."
Asked by reporters yesterday about the Ashkenazi haredi claim that most IDF converts do not go on to live an Orthodox lifestyle – which the Ashkenazi haredim say proves their intent on conversion was not pure and therefore their conversions are invalid – Rabbi Chaim Druckman angrily responded this way:
“There are people who won’t let the facts confuse them. There is no such data, and even if there were, it wouldn’t change the validity of the conversions. Conversions are a one-way operation. A convert who does not keep mitzvot will be punished like a Jew who does not keep mitzvot. All our conversions are according to pure Halacha, as passed down from generation to generation. Whoever comes to undergo a conversion does it because he or she really wants to be Jewish. They are not lacking anything. Society isn’t pushing them to convert. They already received the benefits of olim. [Haredim are] caring only about their own. Their sons and daughters won’t ever marry a convert anyway."
The Post also reported a 27% rise in state conversions done for FSU Jews in 2010, and a 6% rise in similar conversions done in 2010 for IDF soldiers originally from the FSU.