Less than 60 synagogues remain open today. in 1926. 1.000 were open. The average age of rabbis is 70 and there are no longer seminaries existing in the Soviet Union to retrain new rabbis. Jewish religious texts and ritual objects are not produced in the Soviet Union and are often confiscated when brought into the country by visitors. Nearly 400.000 Jews have shown interest in emigrating. I am very sensitive to the plight of these people because of my own experience. As a son of German parents. my father had the extraordinary foresight to see the "writing on the wall" for Jews and other minorities in Germany in the 1930s.
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