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requirements can serve to bolster their opinion, they themselves are not free from similar accusations upon the ground of their own violation of certain other enactments.
But the practical question is, how shall we react to thos embittered people who, in the heat of controversy, would break the family unity of our people there is no answer to this. Those who want to exclude will find reasons for it. We may face them, however, in the confidence that they will not succeed. We are part of the Jewish people. We share its destiny. We join in every great Jewish cause. No legalists will succeed in persuading the majority of Jews - Orthodox, Conservative, or Refom- that we must cease marrying one with another. We may leave the decision as to"Who is a Jew?" to the sound instinct of our people, which has expressed itself magnificently in the spirit of the halakhah:"Let the people of Israel alone[they will find their way]. If they are not prophets, they are certainly the children of prophets." (Pesahim 66a)