[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 13, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1778]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           FREEDOM WEEKS '95

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                       HON. ANTHONY C. BEILENSON

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 13, 1995
  Mr. BEILENSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to inform my colleagues of 
Freedom Weeks '95, a 2-week national education program to celebrate the 
new freedoms of Jews in Russia and the former Soviet Union. This 
celebration will be launched at a national student leadership 
conference in Chicago on October 27-29, and will run from November 6-
20, 1995.
  Freedom Weeks is sponsored by the United Jewish Appeal [UJA], the 
principal American fundraising organization for relief and 
rehabilitation of Jews in distressed lands. Largely as a result of the 
work of the UJA, Jewish communities are emerging in Russia where there 
were none just 5 years ago.
  The UJA prepares college students to assume responsibility for 
continuing this important work through its University Programs, an 
organization active on over 150 campuses nationwide which is 
championing Freedom Weeks '95.
  I congratulate the United Jewish Appeal and its University Programs 
for its hard work and dedication to this important cause.


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