Mr. Speaker. the right to emigrate is a universal human right which the Soviet Union agreed to honor. but. regretfully. does not. Emigration from the Soviet Union is very restricted. Therefore. friends in Israel of Zelik Gafonovich and freedomloving people everywhere have reason to be concerned about his fate. Except for one synagogue. this 24yearold Jew from Vilna can find almost no evidence in his city of the thriving. intensive cultural and spiritual life which once earned for it the name Jerusalem of Lithuania. At present. Soviet Jewish youth In Increasing numbers feel that there is no future for Jewish life in the Soviet Union.
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Soviet Jewish youth feel there is no future for Jewish life in the Soviet Union.