Soviet Jewry today is threatened with cultural and religious genocide from a policy of forced assimilationa deliberate and brutal government effort to stamp out the Jewish historic and cultural heritage. The study. too. of Hebrew is systematically and forceably discouraged. Last year. as we all are painfully aware. Moscows only Hebrew teacher was imprisoned on the vague charge of "hooliganism." To the oppression. which has become so commonplace. we have now seen the Soviet authorities add a barbarous ransom on those Russian Jews who seek to emigrate to Israel. It is this intolerable act that has caused our colleagues in the House to join together and express their outrage at this tyrannical Soviet policy toward those who seek nothing more
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