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For these there are approximately 60 synagogues and rabbis. or one synagogue and rabbi for each 16.000 believers. No new rabbis are now being trained and the average age of rabbis is over 70. Little hope remains for a continuation of Jewish religious life in the Soviet Union. Despite those advocates of "detente" in our own country who tell us that the Soviet Union is changing. the unhappy fact remains that for its citizens that country is a vast prison. forbidding emigration. But. beyond this. the Soviet Union is now pursuing an active propaganda policy of antisemitism. My distinguished colleague.