Speaker. in less than a month Jews around the world will cap the holiday season with the joyous celebration of Simchat Torah. In no place is this holiday observed more poignantly than the streets around the few remaining open synagogues in the Soviet Union. Young people with little knowledge of their heritage come to express solidarity with Jews everywhere and to show that they have not given up hope for both emigration to Israel and improvement in human rights in the U.S.S.R. A detached observer would see little cause for Soviet Jews to rejoice. Permission for emigration to the West has come to a virtual standstill. Governmentsponsored antiZionist committees have created an atmosphere of antiSemitism not seen since the Stalinist era. The human spirit defies detached logical analysis.
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