East-West This Year in Jerusalem

At last, Shcharansky is released to Israel and freedom

How good it is and how pleasant

for brothers to live together!

. . . It is like the dew of Hermon falling

upon the hills of Zion.

There the Lord bestows his blessing,

life for evermore.

--From Psalm 133, Shcharansky's

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The psalmbook kept him company. During the nine years he spent in Soviet prisons and work camps, most of his other possessions were taken from him. But he clung to a miniature copy of the Book of Psalms that his wife Avital had sent from Israel. In fact, he once spent 130 days in solitary confinement because he refused...

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