While "crisis" has become synonymous with the condition of Soviet Jewry. the term was given new meaning by the testimony of concerned human rights groups and by the firsthand account of former refusenik Aleksandr Goldfarb. The current situation is the worst its been in the last decade. Emigration has been choked off and the conditions under which Jews are forced to remain in the Soviet Union are deplorable. Not only is it fitting that the Human Rights Subcommittee be made aware of these violations of religious freedoms. but that all Members of Congress and the American people should be informed. I would like to include in the RECORD a brief statement which I presented at the subcommittee hearing addressing the hardships facing Soviet Jews today:
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