Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plight of Jews in the Soviet Union has degenerated into a "catastrophical situation" in recent years, Yuri Stern, a Soviet dissident who recently emigrated to Israel, said yesterday...
Speaking to about 15 people over dinner at Hillel, Stern, a research worker at Moscow University until his emigration this past April, said that Jews are deprived even of those basic national rights which other minorities in the Soviet Union enjoy...
...Stern said that in the past few years all Jewish institutions and organizations have been closed down and Jewish activists arrested. Soviet officials recently closed the Cultural Seminar in Leningrad, which dealt which the period of the Second Temple and related issues, because of its "anti-Soviet" studies, he added...
This October, only 300 Jews were permitted to emigrate, compared to 1000 last October and 4000 to 5000 per month two years ago, Stern said...
...greatest symphonic organizations, it has a noble tradition and a distinctive sound. Its home-town appeal extends from the white-haired ladies who sip cranberry juice at intermission of the Friday afternoon concerts to the young physicists and computer scientists who fill the hall on Saturday evening. Isaac Stern, in a birthday greeting, was right when he called it "a great Boston tradition that continues to enrich our nation...