After Brailovskys arrest and imprisonment in 1980. Ioffee hosted these seminars. Hes since been consistently harassed by the KGB. his apartment door has been set on fire. and the seminars have been outlawed. Aleksander loffee is 1 of more than 300.000 Soviet Jews whove said theyd like to emigrate from the U.S.S.R. and whove been denied this right. Since 1979. Jewish emigration has declined 98 percent. At the same time. officially sanctioned antiSemitic campaigns and restrictions against refuseniks have increased dramatically. We Americans must continue to decry the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. The dilemma of Aleksander Ioffee and Soviet Jewry is an issue we need to recognize and respond to. now during Rosh Hashanah and during the rest of the year..
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