As I stated earlier he is Yuli Edelshtein. a former English teacher who was arrested in 1984 for his commitment to study and teach Hebrew and Jewish culture. Mr. Edelshtein is presently a Prisoner of Conscience imprisoned in a Soviet labor camp for the crime of seeking to retain his Jewish identity and wishing to emigrate to Israel. As a result of my conversation with Cherna Goldort. I have written to General Secretary Gorbachev. Foreign Minister Shevardnadze and Ambassador Dubinin. challenging the Soviet Union to live up to its muchpublicized policy of "glasnost" of openness. The Soviet Union simply must comply with the humanitarian provisions of the Helsinki accords and prove that their policy on Jewish emigration is more than "mere words." In a further effort to help secure the release of Cherna Goldort in the very near future. I will send to every Member of the House and Senate a "Dear Colleague" letter describing Chernas plight. Attached to each one of these letters will be a card identical to the one I now hold in my hand. This preprinted card is addressed to General Secretary Gorbachev and indicates that Cherna Goldort is very ill. all alone. and wants to be reunited with her daughters and grandchildren in Israel. Upon receiving this card I encourage each Representative or Senator to take just a moment to fill it out and send it off. Through such efforts. we must continue to press the Soviets to allow people like Cherna Goldort and Yuli Edelshtein to emigrate and determine their own destinies. Let Cherna Goldort of Novosibirsk go! Her application to emigrate to join her daughters in Israel is being blocked by the management of a Chemical Research InstituteA.N.I.I.H.K.T. in Biysk where Cherna has not worked since 1971.
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