… If not for the programs, if not for the efforts of Jews in America and the U.K. (United Kingdom), we would not have had so many thousands of Jews come out of Russia. The Soviet Union is very sensitive about public opinion. When we do things that annoy them very much, it is occasionally productive.” Well as a result of the campaign of the save soviet Jewry camp, there were 32000 jews who left the soviet union for Israel, and 50000 came to the united states on their own in 1973. Well, Poupko always felt very lucky as well as privileged to escape from this, according to his granddaughter, Gilah Kletenik from New york. He also led the first rabbinic delegation with the soviet union and also had the chance to travel there a dozen times. According to her granddaughter, the KGB always followed him. He also spoke in synagogues and then campaigned for the government for the Jewish religion or emigration. There were 1.5 million Jews that resettled in the two countries. From the year 1949 to the year 1999, Poupko was the president of the rabbinical council of Pittsburgh and also co-founded the Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh. He also brought the streams of Judaism together in establishing the greater Pittsburgh rabbinic association in the 1980s. Poupko also identified with the liberal progressives in politics but that too aside from the voting. He was active in politics. And also did not endorse any candidates from the pulpit. Poupko was also determined to raise his children with the same values his parents instilled in him. In the recording, he also spoke of his mother’s insistence on education in the stream of arts. Also, his parents did not believe being Jewish meant dressing just friendly and they could conduct themselves like everyone else. In his own words, “Everything which is done in the free world to arouse public opinion is of help. … If not for the programs, if not for the efforts of Jews in America and the U.K. (United Kingdom), we would not have had so many thousands of Jews come out of Russia. The Soviet Union is very sensitive about public opinion. … When we do things that annoy them very much, it is occasionally productive.” Films and Television There was a half an hour documentary that was made on Rabbi Bernard Poupko as he exited through