Law & Order Season 11 Episode 5

Abbie's description of the rules for a valid conversion to Judaism is incorrect. For a male convert, the three requirements are (1) a ritual circumcision; (2) acceptance of the commandments; (3) immersion in a mikvah (ritual bath). Giving a Hebrew name has nothing to do with it (although converts do adopt one *afer* they have converted). Furthermore, a doctor's certificate attesting to the circumcision would be insufficient, since the circumcision would not have been done for the specific purpose of the conversion. A male who is already circumcised who wants to convert undergoes a symbolic circumcision (in which "one drop" of blood is sufficient to mark the entrance into the covenant). And when a child is converted, when he or she reaches bar/bat mitzvah age (13 for boys, 12 for girls), he or she is given the option of accepting or rejecting the conversion retroactively.