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...warned that, like Dostoyevsky's antihero Raskolnikov, he was guilty of a "crime" and "punishment" would follow. Sure enough, he was stripped of his job at the Taganka Theater, which he had run for two decades, then his Communist Party membership, his Moscow apartment and finally, in absentia, his citizenship. After years of agitating for permission to work in the West, Lyubimov had cruelly been granted his wish. Since then he has staged plays and operas throughout Europe and in Israel, ranging from a Rigoletto in Florence, in which the heroine sang an aria while wafting through...
...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...
Fearing a court ruling in Miller's favor, Peretz came up with a compromise: he would approve citizenship but mark her identity card JEWISH (CONVERT). That upset not only Miller, who said it would make her a second-class Jew, but also former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. He said that reminding a convert of the past was a "reprehensible" violation of religious law. Last month Israel's Supreme Court tossed out Peretz's proposal and ordered that Miller be registered...
Israel's Law of Return, last revised in 1970, grants automatic citizenship to any immigrant who is "born of a Jewish mother or who has converted." Orthodox politicians, distressed at the Miller ruling, are insisting on an amendment that the Knesset has repeatedly rejected. It would require conversion "according to halakhah" (religious law) as interpreted by Orthodoxy. The Orthodox claim that, otherwise, rabbinical courts, which supervise marriages, will need to maintain two lists of Israelis: those qualified to wed under religious law and those who cannot because of questionable conversions...
...Sakharov the human rights activist. The courtship may already have begun. On Dec. 19, Crimean Tatar Activist Mustafa Dzhemilev was freed from a Siberian labor camp after twelve years of prison and exile. Last week Yuri Lyubimov, a prominent Soviet theatrical director who was stripped of his citizenship two years ago for criticizing cultural restrictions, received a phone call in Washington from a former colleague at Moscow's Taganka Theater encouraging him to return home. Lyubimov believes the call was officially sanctioned, and is pursuing the overture. And on the day Sakharov's release was announced, Irina Ratushinskaya, a dissident...