Word: write-a-thon
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...Harvard Radcliffe Committee on Oppressed Jewry held its seventh annual write-a-thon yesterday, sending out about 2000 letters urging Soviet authorities to allow a dissident to emigrate, said committee co-chair Max Kanevsky...
...second year in a row, the write-a-thon focused on Georgi M. Belitsky, an applied physicist who has been demanding to leave the Soviet Union since...
...Oppressed Jewry Committee, part of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, organizes the write-a-thon every year to encourage Soviet officials to allow Jews to emigrate to Israel, said Kanevsky...
...hour event, organized by Harvard Students for Soviet Jewry, gathered signatures on roughly 1900 letters and about 1000 signatures on petitions on behalf of 13 Jews who have been denied permission to immigrate to the U.S. or Israel. Several scholars from Harvard and MIT also spoke at the write-a-thon...
Members of one of the families Dershowitz worked to release, the Gudava family, were at the write-a-thon to help publicize the plight of Soviet refuseniks...