Thirty Moscow Jews will stage a hunger strike Sunday to protest the latest wave of persecution of Jewish emigration activists, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry reported today. They will have the support of 500 Christian Pentecostals in the USSR who will conduct a prayer fast at the same time for religious freedom and the right to emigrate, the SSSJ said.
The SSSJ also said that it will conduct a 10-mile walk-a-thon Sunday for Jewish activists, from the Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn to Brighton Beach and back. According to the SSSJ, demonstrations will also take place Sunday in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.
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