Speaker. as this second session of the 97th Congress gets underway. it is imperative that we in the Congress intensify our efforts to combat the appalling rise in antiSemitism within the Soviet Union. Increasingly. those who seek the freedom to practice the religion of their choice in the country of their choice have incurred the vengeful wrath of the heartless regime ruling the Soviet Union. For example the most recent report of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews informs us that emigration of those Soviet Jews who are. grudgingly. permitted to leave Russia dropped below 10.000 in 1981. the lowest level since the inception of the Soviet Jewry movement more than a decade ago. Still worse. antiSemitism in the governmentcontrolled media and professions within the Soviet Union has increased dramatically. Tragically. so have arrests of key activists.
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