Mr. Speaker. the plight of approximately 3 /2 million Jewish people living in the Soviet Union has become a matter of grave concern to millions of Americans. Those people are being penalized for their religious faith by an emigration tax which the Soviet Government applies almost exclusively to Russian Jews. However. although a few Jews in the Soviet Union may die in forced labor camps. they are not being physically wiped out on a methodical basis. Today Russian Jews are relatively immune from the old practices of mass murder that dominated the lives of their ancestors for many centuries. That type of persecution has shifted location and now characterizes the lives of Jews living in certain nations of the Arab World.
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