Foreign Affairs

With good reason, wouldn’t you say?

My son-in-law had to flee Russia (that is to say, his mom did) before he was ten, because his father got on the wrong side of Putin’s graces in some insignificant business deal shortly after the Soviet Union dissolved. I never found out the details, and his dad didn’t live to tell the tale. They aren’t/weren’t Jewish, but fled to Israel anyway (she had some contact or other there through her mom). He was still young, and so became fluent in Hebrew before his mom met some American guy in New York. He was a well-connected lawyer, and after moving to the USA, they soon had green cards. My SIL now finally has his US citizenship, and no fortune worth chasing, so I think he and my daughter can breathe easy. He took my daughter’s family name, and dropped his own. Their sons (my grandsons) have only US and German citizenship, so no obvious connections to either Russia or Israel.