Judith RatnerBialy. Leonid and Alexander Bialy. Valery and Eva Sherbaum. and Alexander and Vladimir Lerner. have all asked not once. but time and again. to emigrate to Israel where members of their families reside. These people are not dissidents. They are not refusing to obey Soviet laws. They are not attempting to change the Soviet system. They do not criticize the system. These Soviet citizens are asking only that they be allowed the right of family reunification. The Soviet Government has said that all those wishing to emigrate have already done so. Yet these 11 Jewish refusniks. and countless others. are still living against their wishes in the Soviet Union. Not only have they been refused permission to leave the Soviet Union. but they are constantly harassed. persecuted. arrested. dismissed from positions of employment. and often imprisoned. Prof. Alexander Lerner. a prominent cyberneticist once on the staff at the Moscow PhysicalTechnical University. has been forbidden to teach and is isolated from his colleagues because he has sought to emigrate. His son. Vladimir. has worked hard to find employment after being repeatedly fired on the basis that he also has sought emigration. Ilya Shaya is halfblind. nearly deaf. paralyzed. and confined to bed. His wife.
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