Russia now feels like a powder keg waiting for the right match to explode. * 0 So when I ask today to do everything possible to facilitate our leaving for Israel. I ask not for me. but for my three children. " I truly hope that her analogy is an exaggerated one. But whether or not it Is. the bottom line is that the Sorkins. like so many other thousands of people before them. should be allowed to emigrate. I applaud the great progress we have seen in the Soviet human rights situation under President Gorbachev. Since 1986. his policies have allowed more than 135.000 Soviet Jews to emigrate and to finally live their lives as they choose. I only hope that President Gorbachev will extend this same basic right to the Sorkins and to the other refuseniks who remain Inside the Soviet Union. This August. 12yearold Renata Sorkin will turn 13. which is the time for Batmitzvah.
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