Mr. Speaker. on April 5. Dr. Joseph Schechtman. noted author and Zionist leader. delivered an address in Forest Hills. N.Y.. on the problem of opening the doors of Soviet Russia for the emigration of Jews to Israel. Dr. Schechtman forcefully and dramatically pointed out the paradoxes and pitfalls in Russian policy toward the Jews who tragically are forced to eke out an existence in the barren soil of Communist society with little hope of being permitted by the authorities to escape. Forced to submit to unrelenting inequality of treatment. Jews in Russia are forbidden the teaching of their religion except by parents. the study of their culture is banned. and Hebrew theaters. cultural institutions. and printing houses have long been closed.
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