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       My grandfather didn’t escape religious persecution in Soviet times; he lost all that he had because of his faith. But not me! This is a different time! Communist gulags were closed. Perestroika changed everything. We live in a civilized world now.        Yet, once in a while, I heard my sister’s whisper in my ears, “Lidka, you will end in prison! Think about your children! Women should not be ministers!” Before coming to America, I thought that exile was something ancient and related to the Jews in Egypt, like in the Bible.