Jews in the Soviet Union
Sir,—Needing neither eye-treat-ment in Italy, nor heart surgery in the United States, it seems that Yelena Bonner’s Westward junket was a carefully-planned propaganda exercise sponsored by her and her husband’s Western mentors to further their anti-Soviet smear campaigns. One can fairly shrewdly guess why Yelena Bonner chose demonstratively to attend a service in a synagogue in the United States for the first time in her life, when there are 92 synagogues in the Soviet Union where this non-believing part-Jewess could have expressed her solidarity with those Soviet Jews. The majority, who have no desire to emigrate, are free to practise their faith, or not practise it as are
thousands of non-believing Jews like Yelena Bonner herself, or the thousands of Soviet Jews, ex-em-igres who, having experienced life in Isreal and the West, have gladly returned to their Soviet homeland. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. December 23, 1985.
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