Mr. Speaker. while all of us in the Congress are heartened by the recent emigration of Valery and Galina Panov to Israel. we must not permit our concern for other less eminent Soviet Jews to erode. Jews seeking to emigrate are encountering severe difficulties and are harassed and discriminated against for actions which we ourselves incorporate as an inherent part of our traditional libertiesthe right to openly practice their religious and cultural heritage. and the freedom to emigrate. I would like to call attention to the actions of the Sisterhood of Temple Valley Beth Shalom in Encino. Calif. In its continuing attempts to publicize the plight of Soviet Jewry. the sisterhood. on April 18. 1974. placed another of its telephone calls to the family of Boris Rubinstein. its "adopted" Soviet family.
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