Dr. Sheldon Benjamin will recount the tactics used in fighting for freedom of emigration for Soviet Jews when he and his wife, Miriam Rosenblum, chaired the Cincinnati Council for Soviet Jews in the 1970’s. Using light-hearted personal vignettes he will discuss some of the creative demonstrations, mail campaigns, tourist briefing techniques, and political work that made the Soviet Jewry movement a success, as well as the story of their own arrest in Kiev in 1974. The American human rights campaigners seeking to alleviate the plight of the Soviet Jews shut down the international phone lines to the USSR to protest the authorities cutting off the phones of activists; they staged theatrical demonstrations at sporting events, circus performances, and dance concerts; they smuggled banned literature in and out of the former Soviet Union; they set up phone calls with hunger-striking activists live in front of the news media; they published the "Manual on Psychiatry" for dissidents; and they eventually succeeded in forming a massive political campaign in the United States that helped hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews to leave the Soviet Union.