Speech #990102725

In the past few years. a mere three Soviet Jewish students selected by the Soviet authorities have been approved for rabbinical training at the seminary in Budapest. It has been 9 months since we began the 1985 Congressional Call to Conscience on Soviet Jewry. but the denial of fundamental freedoms for Soviet Jews has occurred for many years. Our moral and thical outrage should not diminish as long as these people are denied free practice of their religion and the right to emigrate. Just as refuseniks such as losif Radomiselsky courageously struggle to maintain their cultural and religious identity. we must not waiver in our persistent denunciation of the human rights violations occurring In the Soviet Union.