The November summit meeting and the prospect of a second summit fuel hopes for a partial thaw in relations between the superpowers. The release of Anatoly Shcharansky and the reuniting of more than a hundred divided spouses are signs of this development. However. we should not let these events lull us into forgetting the plight of the 350.000 Soviet Jews who are still denied the right to emigrate. Jewish emigration which reached its peak of 51.000 in 1979. dropped to 1.140. and now is even lower than last years level. Repression in the Soviet Union is not confined to those Jews who seek to emigrate. The approximately 2.5 Soviet Jews suffer sweeping restrictions on the right to practice their religion. No seminars exist to train religious leaders.
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