Push-forwards of Chow groups of smooth ample divisors, with an emphasis on Jacobian varieties

With a homological Lefschetz conjecture in mind, we prove the injectivity of the push-forward morphism on rational Chow groups, induced by the closed embedding of an ample divisor linearly equivalent to a higher multiple of the Theta divisor inside the Jacobian variety J(C), where C is a smooth irreducible complex projective curve.