In 1978, my family fled the Soviet Union thanks to the Jackson-Vanik Amendment.

This landmark law tied trade relations with communist countries to the right to emigrate by denying permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to any state that limited emigration.

It was a rare moment when a moral principle and a strategic goal aligned. Approximately 1.9 million Soviet Jews and their relatives emigrated.

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