Since taking office Mr. Gorbachevs policy of glasnost or openness has been disappointing. I am encouraged by the release of Anatoly Shcharansky and Iosif Begun and the fact that 400 Soviet Jews have so far received permission to emigrate this month. yet life remains very difficult. especially for the refuseniks. To be a Jew in Russia today is to face a living death. Prospects for a normal life. an education. a job. a future. have never been bleaker. yet even to ask to emigrate is to risk persecution. to face imprisonment. Jewish cultural and religious expression has long been restricted. and there are apparent obstacles to its preservation. There are no Hebrew or Yiddish schools.
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