A conversion performed in Moscow by a three-member rabbinical panel headed by Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin was accepted last week in Israel. It was the first conversion performed in Moscow in more than 20 years. Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren of Tel Aviv who inspected the documents submitted to him by a Soviet woman emigre said the conversion was in order.
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