Rabbis are employees of the state. Synagogues. as one refusenik told me. are no longer Houses of God. but branches of a threeletter ministrythe KGB. Two years ago a KGB agent approached one of the several dozen refuseniks I made a point of meeting and offered him a more attractive job and early consideration of an exit visa. "Nothing would be demanded in return. for now." the KGB agent said. "When in Israel. however. Ill visit you." The refusenik refused. He had not read "The Devil and Daniel Webster." but he understood that making a deal with the devil involved a moral price difficult to pay.