Every human institution is at risk of being corrupt since humans are inherently flawed. All that means is that it's a struggle to keep those institutions honest. Overstatements that hysterically exaggerate the problem contribute nothing to improving the situation. Who is really to blame? The decision to convert - i. From the viewpoint of halacha, just as a born Jew can never shed that status, so too a "sincere" convert. That much is clear.
The only difference in the Ashdod case was that the woman whose conversion was annulled had been converted by a beit din composed of "Orthodox" rabbis. Yet, the woman admitted, the beit din had apparently made no effort to ascertain whether she intended to accept the halachic system as binding upon her and use her conversion as a trick to marry and financially rape Jewish men.
She had never kept some of the most basic and stringent aspects of halacha after her conversion, and the rabbinate NEVER investigated her checkered past. In one case, the "convert" grew up in a criminal family, where the family lived off stolen goods, had family outings to stores where the entire family was taught by their father how to steal, fraudulent welfare claims, multiple abortions, multiple rapes, and her father was a convicted felon and was imprisoned for attempted murder of her mother!
Orthodox rabbis - even some with long white beards - who perform conversions without making any effort to ascertain the candidate's commitment to mitzvah observance and ethical conduct, and often in the face of compelling evidence to the contrary, is, unfortunately, also an old story. IT IS NOT those who uphold strict standards for conversion who show a lack of love and concern for the convert, but rather those who ignore the halachic requirement of a sincere commitment to mitzva observance and ethical behavior as the Torah demands!
A universally recognized standard is the greatest protection for the "sincere" convert, and the implementation of such a standard by "responsible" rabbinical courts is the key to the complete integration of the "sincere" convert into the Jewish people, without any concern that someone will someday question his or her conversion.
