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The budget crunch that has caused a backlog in the processing of Soviet citizens seeking to immigrate to the United States has the potential to affect Soviet Jews, although it does not as yet, the State Department said last week. Department spokesman Charles Redman said the problem exists at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, where […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315