Conversion controversy: Can the Jewish people win a gold medal?
"Converts are as difficult to Israel as a sore." (Yevamot 47a)
ARTEM DOLGOPYAT, who won gold in men’s Gymnastics at Tokyo’s Olympics Games, poses with his girlfriend Maria Sakovich, as he is welcomed upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv (photo credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)BySTEWART WEISS