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Third Temple Torah Thanks To Us From Harry Truman By Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Poupko Rabbi Baruch Poupko , father of Jerusalem’s own Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Poupko was a man used to thinking big. After all, when in the fifties a frightened cold war America was busy building air raid shelters, Poupko was developing the strategy that ultimately liberated Soviet Jewry. As a public school student in communist Russia he learned that Russians fear humiliation far more than death itself. To Baruch Poupko this meant that there was nothing in Russia’s arsenal of thermonuclear weapons to protect them from the merciless public ridicule his movement would heaped upon them. Ultimately this led to the success of America’s Jackson–Vanik amendment in 1974 that pressured the Soviet Union to stop restricting Jewish emigration through "diploma taxes" . The rest is well known history.
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