Our forefathers founded the United States on the ideals of religious freedom and personal liberty. While we enjoy these privileges. the Soviet Jews face imprisonment and harassment for trying to perpetuate their religion and culture. Each year thousands of Soviet Jews express their desire to emigrate. yet they cannot rejoin their families outside the U.S.S.R. .Instead. they receive job dismissal. school expulsion. and public denouncement as traitors. The Soviet Government has agreed to respect religious. cultural. and emigration freedoms in the Helsinki accord of 1975 and other international human rights agreements. I urge the U.S.S.R. to stop this harsh treatment of Jews and to honor their commitment to human rights.0
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