Gardenvariety Jews with minimal educations go for $5.000. Advanced educations. up to and including doctorates. will cost the purchaser up to $37.000. Such fees are being charged for those seeking the chance to emigrate to Israel. in addition to the usual $1.000 fee for emigration permits and renunciation of citizenship. All this is. of course. in addition to loss of employment. forced military service. imprisonment. and a variety of other forms of harassment. which often includes overt violence and surveillance. On September 19. the Supreme Soviet meets to ratify this fee schedule. Now the fate of Russias Jews is sealed. No schools. synagogues. cultural life. or opportunity to emigrate to free land of their choice. Officially. the Soviet regime says these exorbitant fees are being charged to prevent a drain of trained talent. Yet it is true that any educated Jew seeking a visa is automatically dismissed from his job. Simultaneously. Russia seeks from us mostfavorednation status.
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