Speaker. I participate in todays special order on behalf of Soviet Jewry feeling frustrated and angry because there are 400.000 Jews in the Soviet Union who wish to worship in freedom and may never have the opportunity. Denied the right to practice their faith within the U.S.S.R.. they are also prevented from emigrating. effectively trapping the 2 million Soviet Jews in a country that then persecutes them because of their faith. Col. Mendel Grinfarb is one of the many trapped by the system. The Grinfarbs have already had more than their share of heartacheduring World War II. two of their three sons died of starvation. Now they remain separated from their daughters and grandchildren in Israel because the Soviet Government will not allow the colonel and his wife Betina to emigrate. At 72. the Grinfarbs only desire to live their remaining years in the homeland of their people and with their family. Felix Kochubievsky and his wife have also been denied permission to emigrate and have been separated from their sons in Israel since 1979. After a lengthy period of imprisonment and trial. Dr.
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