The Jewish Agency for Israel reportedly is planning to provide quick conversions for non-Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. Under the plan, dubbed Mt. Sinai, a special camp will be opened in an Eastern European country, where immigrants on their way to Israel would spend four weeks in an intensive conversion course, according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz.
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