A long-awaited conversion institute involving Orthodox, Conservative and Reform perspectives will open its doors in three Israeli cities next February. According to Benjamin Ish-Shalom, chairman of the board of the new Institute for Jewish Studies — which is informally known as the conversion institute – – the first three locations will open in the north, center and south of the country. The institute is part of a government-sponsored compromise to give the non-Orthodox movements a role in conversions performed in Israel.
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