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Fifty years ago tomorrow...

Fifty years ago tomorrow, on the eighth night of Hanukah in 1970, twelve men and one woman, mostly members of Jewish for Urban Justice, were arrested at the former Soviet Union Embassy. We were protesting the trial of some 16 Jewish Refuseniks faced with capital punishment and/or many years of imprisonment for attempting to hijack a plane to escape from Russia. They had been refused exit visas.

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