Shoshana Shoubin Cardin '46

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Shoshana Cardin '46, an internationally known philanthropist and leader of Jewish organizations, passed away in Maryland on May 18. She was 91.

Born Shoshana Shoubin in Tel Aviv, in what was then Palestine, on October 10, 1926, her family moved to Baltimore the following year. She planned to become an attorney and attended Johns Hopkins University for several years before earning her bachelor's degree in English at UCLA. She received a master's degree in planning and administration from Antioch University in 1979.

Shoubin married Jerome S. Cardin in 1948; they had four children and, as a young mother, she became active in community groups that supported Jewish and women's causes. Increasingly concerned about the plight of Soviet Jews, she made freedom a priority for Jews living in Russia and other Soviet Republics. Her efforts, which included meeting with then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, eventually led to more than 1.2 million Jews being able to emigrate from the Soviet Union.

Cardin is survived by her children, Steven and Marie Cardin, Ilene and Dr. Bert Vogelstein, Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin and Rabbi Avram Israel Reisner, and Sanford Cardin and Melody McCoy; 20 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

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