Last summer I shared with you the plight of a Russian Jew. Aleksandr Gelman. He first applied for an exit visa in February of 1977. His request was promptly refused. He. his wife Valentina. and their two children have been systematically harassed and intimidated because they have opted to seek freedom to practice their religion. The Gelman family is not alone in its suffering. A new nadir was reached last year. when only 1.314 of the nearly 400.000 Jews requesting exit visas were allowed to leave the Soviet Union. During the decade of the Soviet Jewry movement there has never been a year that less Jews were allowed to leave. The Soviet Union is suppressing a basic human right. the right to practice the religion of choice. openly and without threat.
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