Over 200 French youth gathered Wednesday at the Western Wall in support of the struggle for Soviet Jewry. Avital Shcharansky, wife of jailed Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, addressed the youth and called on them to engage in “total war for Soviet Jewry in the face of Soviet terrorism.”
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