Refusenik authorities to significantly increase the emigration quota. In the years 1960 through 1970, only about 3,000 Soviet Jews had (legally) emigrated from the USSR; after the trial, in the period from 1971 to 1980 347,100 people received a visa to leave the USSR, 245,951 of them were Jews. Refuseniks included Jews who desired to emigrate on religious grounds, Jews seeking to immigrate to Israel for Zionist aspirations, and relatively secular Jews desiring to escape continuous state-sponsored antisemitism. A leading proponent and spokesman for the refusenik rights during the mid-1970s was Natan Sharansky. Sharansky's involvement with the Moscow Helsinki Group helped
Begin to Hope in the Irish music download charts and #16 in the Irish Top 50 Singles Chart as of May 2007. "Samson" is a new recording of a song originally released on 2002's "Songs". Gwen Stefani used the song for her Season 9 battle between Korin Bukowski and Chase Kerby on "The Voice". "Après Moi" was covered by Peter Gabriel on his recent album "Scratch My Back". Begin to Hope Begin to Hope is the fourth album by Soviet-born American singer-songwriter Regina Spektor. It was released June 13, 2006. The album debuted at number 70 on the "Billboard" 200, but due to