Mr. President. a year ago. the Soviet Union launched an allout campaign to crush once and for all the spirit of Soviet Jewry. The notorious antiZionist committee filled the Soviet media with denunciations of Israel and with crude. antiSemitic attacks on Jews who dare tc - practice their religion and to expresE their national sentiments. Emigration. which in its peak year exceeded 51.000 dropped in 1984 tc merely 896. So far this year. fewer than 500 Soviet Jews have departed. But. Mr. President. the most brutal Soviet treatment has been received for the Hebrew teacherspeople who have the temerity to instruct others in the ancient language of the Jewish faith and the living language of Israel today.
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