• ,,,,,0Pi.c,,, l106,.....:rat,,• 41,,,.3440‘..0.10,24,0.,151,Zz3.13......,,,,, THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 24, 1986 7 y Diane Cee E ectro Permanent hair removal from your face and body OFFICIAL 0 AGENCY IOMEGAI the Torah at Sinai — circumci- sion, mikveh immersion and most importantly, acceptance of all the mitzvot. A non-Jew who sincerely desires to become a Jew is required to do these same things. The Talmud states that the most important aspect of the conversion is the acceptance of all the mitzvot as they are de- fined in the Talmud and the Code of Jewish Law. If one doesn't accept even one mitzvah the conversion is invalid. This concept, we believe, as with all Halachic concepts, is Divinely revealed law. Therefore Halacha cannot accept, as legitimate, any other standard. This in no way casts doubt on the legitimacy of any Jew born of a Jewish mother, nor does it cast a doubt on the spiritual validity and accomplishments of any Jew regardless of which label he chooses to be identified by. This basically is the crux of the "Who Is A Jew" controver- sey in Israel. It would be far easier for the Lubavitch movement to simply ignore or play down this issue of "Who Is A Jew," as some other Orthodox groups have done. But that would be resigning all non-Orthodox Jews to eventual questioning of their Jewish status (are they really Jewish or are non-Halachic converts mixed among them?), and lead to their inevitable complete delegitimi- zation. This would be the greatest tragedy ever to befall our people. Lubavitch, precisely because of its love for all Jews, refuses to ignore this threat of an ir- revocable division among Jews, regardless of the temporary hardship it may thereby seem to impose on itself. The only possible solution to this critical problem is for all conversions to be done strictly according to a single unifying standard, which is Halacha. Another expression of the un- failing love and acceptance of all Jews by Lubavitch, which I sensed you disparaged in the ar- ticle, is that among the tens of thousands of people who are at- tracted to Lubavitch, to various degrees, Lubavitch does not dis- crinlinate against those who may have handicaps or prob- lems, and accepts them without hesitation because all Jews are equally God's children, indi- vidually chosen by God, includ- ing their handicaps. Gilbert Sniderman Articles Aid Soviet. Jewry Thank you very much for the article (Jan. 10) about the two Detroit arga people on trial in Washington, D.C. for protesting at the Soviet Embassy. It is through the media that the crisis for the Jews in the. Soviet Union can be best told. Too many of our fellow Jews are un- aware or ambivalent about our brethren. 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