Teenage students are still sitting quietly outside the Soviet Embassy, continuing the “fast for freedom” started Monday to protest discrimination against Jews in Russia and the refusal of the Soviet government to allow Jews to emigrate to Israel. More than 200 youths signed up to continue the demonstration. Each teenager fasts one day in front of the Embassy, in a solitary vigil to express their solidarity with Jewish youth in Russia. The focus of the “fast for freedom” vigil is on Boris Kochubiyevsky, the young Soviet Jewish engineer who was sentenced to a three year prison term last May for protesting Soviet anti-Semitism and for asking for permission to emigrate to Israel with his wife and child.
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