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The Soviet government has recently enacted new legislation which imposes new and greater restrictions on religious freedom in the Soviet Union, according to the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry. The new laws require advance special permission for each occasion that a religious service is held in a private home. Permission would thus be […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315