After a rabbi at their synagogue asked for volunteers, Adele and Joel helped found the South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry.

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Desperate to invigorate his flagging massage business, a father submits to the condescension of a wealthier couple stooping to help Soviet Jewry, an exercise that both humiliates and is to no avail.

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