Congregations throughout the world offer prayers on behalf of their fellow Jews In the Soviet Union who are denied the right to repatriate and Join their families outside the Soviet Union. In keeping with my recent practice. I take this opportunity to report the current emigration rate for Jews from the Soviet Union. In the month of September. only 69 Jews were allowed to leave the Soviet Union. fewer than the 83 who emigrated in August. That brings the yearly total to 721. By comparison. approximately 1.150 Jews emigrated from the Soviet Union in the first 9 months of These figures are appallingly low. What makes the situation all the more difficult and intolerable is that the Jews who remain in the Soviet Union are denied the right to practice their faith freely. They are discriminated against in Jobs and education. and they are the victims of a harsh antiSemitic campaign.
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