These efforts reached a high point when he organized and led a delegation of the Synagogue Council of America to meet with the Deputy Secretary of State and the Departments Human Rights Director. Warren Zimmermann. in September 1985. Mr. Birnbaums vision was partially realized with Malcolm Hoenleins Solidarity Rallies in New York. and. finally. by the great national rally in Washington on December 7. 1987. on the eve of President Gorbachevs meeting with President Reagan. Finally. in 1990. the Kremlin conceded to all the pressure and permitted a mass emigration. which has now totaled more than 2 million people. about 1 million to Israel and 1 million elsewhere. mostly to the United States. This was no small accomplishment. And many people played a role in making it happen.
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