TASK FORCE WITH RESPECT TO BROADCASTS TO SOVIET JEWRY.

SEC. 306. TASK FORCE WITH RESPECT TO BROADCASTS TO SOVIET JEWRY. (a) Establish Task Force.—There shall be established by the Board for International Broadcasting a task force to conduct a study of the advisability and feasibility of increasing broadcasts to the Jewish population within the Soviet Union. (b) Study.—The Task Force shall— (1) investigate the needs of Jewish audiences in the Soviet Union; (2) study the practicality and desirability of establishing a special program, in accordance with the Program Policy Guidelines of RFE/RL, Inc., of Russian language broadcasting to the Jewish population of the Soviet Union; (3) study the advisability of incorporating such a special program in a special unit of its Radio Liberty division entitled the “Radio Maccabee Program of Radio Liberty”; (4) make recommendations with respect to the desirable content of broadcast programming; and (5) identify the needs and concerns of the activist as well as the refusnik population in the Soviet Union. (c) Report.—Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Board for International Broadcasting shall submit a report to the Congress. Such report shall include the following: (1) Whether expansion of original programming scheduled (“Jewish Cultural and Social Life”) or planned (“Judaism”) is fulfilling the needs of the audience, and whether expanded Soviet-Jewish programming should include broadcasts on Jewish history, culture, religion, or other matters of general cultural, intellectual, political, and religious interest to the Soviet Jewish population, as well as Hebrew education courses. (2) The extent to which such programming is broadcast in Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. (3) Recommendations for implementing expanded programming within the structure of RFE/RL, Inc., including specific personnel required and providing for a Soviet Jewry administrative unit within Radio Liberty. (4) The findings of, and the recommendations from, the study required under subsection (b). (d) Maccabee Programming.—RFE/RL, Incorporated, shall strengthen existing programming dealing with issues of concern to Jewish audiences in the Soviet Union, to be known as Maccabee programming. (e) Existing Personnel To Conduct Study and Make Report.—The study and the report required by this section shall be carried out by existing personnel of RFE, Inc., or the Board of International Broadcasting.