We are told that Soviet Jews are denied the freedom to enjoy their own distinctive Jewish cultural traditions. We are told that the Soviet Jew cannot practice his own religious belief as he so chooses. We are told that the Soviet Jew is denied the right of emigration. that he must remain in this situation of unrelenting persecution. and that he must suffer like Job the deprivation of virtually all the necessities and amenities of life. Many people in this country and in the West were shocked to read these stories of discrimination and persecution. They were shocked by the reality that a people who have suffered so much in the span of our own memories should have another plague of suffering visited upon them.
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