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...center of the controversy is Susan Miller, 43, a onetime Southern Baptist and civilian employee of the Colorado Springs, Colo., police. In 1982 she embraced Reform Judaism, adopting the Hebrew first name Shoshana. When Miller moved to Israel in 1985, the Interior Ministry questioned the validity of her conversion because it had been supervised by a Reform rabbi. Thus, said the government, Miller was not eligible for the automatic citizenship granted Jews under Israel's Law of Return...
Tuesday's event was scheduled "to voice protest and indignation, and also to heighten awareness" about the Soviet emigration problem, said co-organizer Shoshana M. Robinson...
...others in our group had more problems reaching their ultimate destination. After more than three paranoid hours riding the Moscow subways, Shoshana Robinson '86 and Rebecca Sheridan '86, lost and discouraged, decided to try one last address. They followed directions to the very outskirts of the city, found the apartment building and rang the bell...
...Harvard group also visited the families of prisoners of conscience, who are imprisoned in the Soviet Union "because of their desire for freedom of religion," said Shoshana M. Robinson '86. Fastenberg said the group smuggled in kosher food, Hebrew books, and religious articles for the prisoners of conscience...
...Shoshana M. Robinson '87, co-chair of Hillel's committee on oppressed Jewry, said she hoped publicity from the demonstration might help pressure government officials into allowing Fradkova to leave the country...