ZD: “No Posek has come out and said Ivanka wasnt jewish and that the conversion wasnt valid. Rav Shecter was on the Beis Din who converted her and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel has also said the conversion was valid.”
Chizuk1: “LU, saying “possibly” to Ivanka’s judaism is itself Lashon Hara”
I didn’t mean to imply that there is any question about the validity of her conversion, and I apologize if my words were taken the way.
I personally do not have any (or hardly any) information to be able to know if her conversion was or was not kosher and therefore, I didn’t want to state flat-out that she is Jewish as though it’s a definite fact when I had no idea if it was or not.
All I meant by the word “possibly” is that to me it’s a possibility since I know nothing about it one way or the other, so I didn’t want to say something false and imply that I know that she is definitely Jewish when I don’t in fact know.
I hadn’t seen it as a LH issue, and I actually thought that I was being dan l’kaf zchus since some of the posters seemed to think that she had done something against halacha which would certainly be fine if she’s not Jewish anyhow. I also didn’t want to make any false accusations against any posters who may have been guilty of speaking LH about her by saying that she is definitely Jewish when I don’t know that definitively.
But I appreciate your letting me know that you think there may a LH issue. You could be right.
I didn’t know that it was so clear-cut that her conversion is kosher and that everyone accepts it. If that is so, then I retroactively retract the words “possibly” from my above post.