I am terribly concerned that the teaching of Hebrew. the Jewish religion. and Jewish culture will be stifled permanently througout the Soviet Union. This onslaught of antiSemitic activities and arrests are only an example of the harrassment that occurs almost on a daily basis. Soviet Jewish emigration continues to decline. The latest emigration figures show that in 1984 only 896 Soviet Jews were allowed to emigrate from the U.S.S.R. according to the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. In the past. emigration figures were as high as 51.320 in 1979. The Soviet Union continues to test the Western world in the hope that we remain silent. Actions such as todays fast show that we cannot and will not be silent.
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