I feel. that our concern with the plight of approximately 3 million Jews in the Soviet Union be renewed and stressed again most strongly on this day. Rabbi Israel Miller. chairman of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry. issued a statement not long ago. conveyed to President Johnson. which pointed out most clearly that the hope for lifting the suppression of the Jews cultural and religious life has not been fulfilled. Permission allowing even a "trickle of emigration" of Soviet Jews to join their relatives abroad was completely shut off last summer after only a brief period. A widespread vilification campaign against Israel and Zionism has made life uncomfortable. at the very least. for these people. The rights granted to other nationality and religious groups have continually been denied to the Jews.
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