JFS has recently been the centre of much attention in the UK Jewish media particularly the Jewish Chronicle because the son of a woman who converted to Judaism was not accepted by JFS However this was not due to the school s own policy but because the London Beth Din the local religious authority refused to recognise the mother s conversion After Rabbi Jonathan Sacks the Chief Rabbi of England pronounced the conversion unauthentic the mother has since taken legal action against him I have never heard before of anything like this Maybe the mother was not converted properly e