Dear Mr. Kosygin: I take the privilege of sending you enclosed a copy of a telegram that I recently sent to President Nixon and Secretary General Waldheim on behalf of a large number of colleagues and friends. We are all of us concerned about the fate of Dr. Benjamin Schapira of Belgorod. I implore you in the name of decency and compassion, as well as the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights to which your country is a signatory, to allow Dr. Schapira and his family to emigrate to Israel and be reunited with his old and sick parents. Certainly a great power like the U.S.S.R. will not suffer if it will allow one family to be reunited and allow an old and sick father and mother to have their one great dream fulfilled, that of seeing their children once again.Respectfully yours,Rabbi Norman LammNL:cwEnc.

The undersigned beseech you in the name of humanity and justice to grant emigration permit to Dr. Beniamin Schapira and his family from Belgorod Oblastnoi Russia and allow them to be reunited with their elderly and ailing parents in Israel at a time when our countries seek to draw together this would be a gesture toward all humanity and world peace.