I think it is particularly appropriate for us to reflect on the fight for freedom that is being waged by our brethren in the Soviet Union. These are the modern day Israelites who are throwing off the yoke of oppression and discrimination and are taking part in a miraculous exodus from the Soviet Union. It seems almost impossible to believe that only 3 years ago I stood on this floor and told my colleagues that the Soviet Jewish emigration rate had reached a horrendous low point. Only 914 Jews were allowed to leave Russia in 1986. Hundreds of thousands languished in a land which they could not leave and in which they could not practice the tenets of their faith.
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