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For example. Yosef Begun was arrested for teaching Hebrew. An official Soviet journalist recently proclaimed that "mass Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union has reached Its end." Sadly enough. he may be right: Only onethird of the total emigrants for 1 month in 1979 were allowed to leave the Soviet Union over the course of the entire year of 1983. We must never relax our efforts to work for the release of those Jews in the Soviet Union who would emigrate to Israel. But just as important. we must never waver in our fundamental commitment to all Jews living in the Soviet Unionwhether willingly or unwillingly. The State Department reports that the frequency and intensity of antiSemitic activity has increased throughout the Soviet Union.