Jewish families will proclaim. "Let my people go." This phrase is as appropriate today for more than 400.000 Jews who desperately want to leave the Soviet Union as it was for the Jewish slaves in Egypt several thousand years ago. While Jewish families worldwide will gather at the seder. Soviet Jews continue to be regularly harassed. intimidated. prohibited from most religious practices. and even imprisoned on trumped up charges. Since 1979. when emigration levels from the U.S.S.R. peaked at 51.320. the numbers have declined alarmingly. With the recent change of leadership in the Kremlin and renewed arms negotiations the opportunity for positive change may again be in the air. It is. therefore. imperative that we let the Soviet Government and the Jewish refuseniks know that we continue to care.
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