There Is No Jewish Crime
Avenger
"Of all the areas of Jewish enterprise," notes Gerald Krafetz, "none
has been so overlooked as the field of crime. And it isn't because of a lack
of Jewish criminality. For an introspective people, this oversight is
significant. It is as if Jewish crime did not exist, an unsavory skeleton is
best left in the family closet ... The sociopathology of Jews is not an
acceptable notion since it runs counter to both religious precepts and
preconceived ideas that Jews have of themselves." [KREFETZ, p. 112] "Jews
were ... involved in many of the most visible and spectacular frauds of the
post-Civil War period," notes Benjamin Ginsberg, "as well as in economic
dislocations and financial manipulations that characterize the era."
[GINSBERG, p. 75] In one much publicized scandal for instance, the Jewish
governor of South Carolina, Franklin Moses, oversaw the issue and selling of
$6 million in fraudulent state securities, as well as funneling hundreds of
thousands of dollars in public funds into his own pocket. [GINSBERG, p. 75]
In a broader financial sphere, very visibly at the top of the
socio-economic pyramid, Jewish businessman Joseph Seligman's nefarious
activities in the late 1800s helped to create the infamous "Black Friday"
stock market crash. Benjamin Ginsberg notes that the crash
"ruined thousands of investors, implicated President Grant, and led to
a
Congressional investigation of [Jay] Gould and Seligman ... Similarly,
in
the early 1890s, Jacob Schiff collaborated with E. H. Harriman in the
latter's attempts to wrest control of the Northern Pacific Railroad
from J.
P. Morgan and James Hill ... When the price of the Northern Pacific
Stock collapsed, the entire market crashed in the notorious 'Black
Thursday' panic that led to a nationwide economic depression."
[GINZBURG, p. 73]
In 1885 the French-based project to build the Panama Canal collapsed,
resulting in financial scandal that led, in part, to Seligman again. "Both
the United States Congress and the French Parliament had inquiries," says
Ginsberg, "In both countries major Jewish financiers were implicated: Baron
Jacques de Reinach in Paris and Joseph Seligman in the United States. Many
shareholders lost everything, but Seligman lost nothing. In contemporary
parlance, the Seligmans engaged in influence peddling, insider trading, and
corporate asset stripping and looting -- all at the expense of credulous
investors." [GINZBURG, p. 74] The French end of the Panama Canal scandals,
notes Albert Lindemann, "involved large amounts of French capital and
threatened national prestige -- and Jewish agents were deeply involved. The
intermediaries between the Panama company and parliament were almost
exclusively Jews with German names and backgrounds, some of whom tried to
blackmail one another." [LINDEMANN, p. 87]
The Jewish component of (Gentile) Huey Long's corrupt political machine
in early 20th century Louisiana included Leon Weiss, an architect, who "was
implicated in the financial scandals surrounding the administration and
served prison time." [KIRKUS, 10-1-97] Herbert Stempel was willing
participant in the 1950s television quiz show scandals until a Gentile,
Charles Van Doren, usurped him in deceit. Jewish TV producer Lew Cowan,
denying guilt, was one of the most prominent executives who lost his job in
the wake of the scandals. Even at the heart of the World Zionist
Organization, after founder Theodore Herzl's death, his wife Julie ("an
extravagant and unstable woman") "threatened the Zionist leaders with
scandals and lawsuits if they didn't meet her extravagant financial needs."
[STERNBERGER, I., 8-15, 1995]
At the other end of the socio-economic world, "the scant attention
[popular author Irving Howe] paid to Jewish crime in World of Our Fathers,
his magisterial study of the [Manhattan Jewish] Lower East side," notes
Charles Silberman, "is a good example of the amnesia American Jews show
about this part of their history." [SILBERMAN, p. 128] In researching the
level of Jewish crime during the early decades of this century in the Lower
East Side, Albert Fried notes that "I discovered that an enormously complex,
richly endowed culture of vice and criminality, made up mainly of young
people, thrived on the Lower East Side, that most outsiders regarded it as
Tammany's bastion of power [Tammany Hall, the corrupt New York city
government of the era] that the Jews themselves eventually came to look upon
it as an insufferable burden of shame and embarrassment." [FRIED, p. xiv]
Such embarrassment included Jewish "fagins" (bands of pickpockets), thieves,
pimps, prostitutes, opium dealers, gamblers, brothel-owners, racketeers,
murderers, robbers, and others of virtually any persuasion. Arson for
building insurance and horse-poisoning in extortion rackets were "two
offenses associated almost exclusively with Jews." [JOSELIT, p. 36] "In the
area of only one square mile [in the Jewish Lower East Side]," notes Jenna
Weissman Joselit, "authorities estimated there were approximately two
hundred disorderly [prostitution] houses, three hundred and thirty-six gang
'hang-outs,' and over two hundred pool halls-cum-betting establishments;
dance halls, a rendezvous of pimps and procurers, were found every two and
one-half blocks." [JOSELIT, p. 24]
Abe "the General" Greenthal, "was one of America's premier
pickpockets ... Abe's home and base of operation was in New York City, but
his gang traveled all over the United States picking pockets." Michael Kurtz
(born in 1850) "was one of America's most celebrated burglars." Joseph
'Yoski Nigger' Toblinsky "led a gang that specialized in stealing and
poisoning horses." Benjamin (Dopey) Fein "was the first gangster to make
labor racketeering a full-time and profitable business. He institutionalized
the practice of furnishing gangs of hoodlums to unions in their wars against
employers." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 88, 91, 94, 95]
"In 1908," notes the Jerusalem Post, "Jews were 25 percent of the four
million residents in New York City but 50% of the prison population."
[HENRY, M., 10-4-01] That same year, the police commissioner of New York
City, Theodore A. Bingham, publicly noted that half of all the criminals in
his city were Jewish. "Jewish leaders," notes Robert Rockaway, "worried that
Jewish gangsters provided ammunition for Jew-haters. Consequently, they
steadfastly refused to acknowledge the problem in public." [ROCKAWAY, R.,
1993, p. 51] As stories of Jewish crime in New York City became increasingly
publicized in the mainstream mass media, initially the "Yiddish press
challenged the veracity of the evidence," [GOREN, p. 141] but "beginning in
1909 and reaching a climax in 1912," says Arthur Goren, "widely publicized
disclosures of vice and crime among Jews created dismay and then alarm in
Jewish circles. Protests of innocence were now impossible." [GOREN, p. 135]
The murder of a well-known Jewish gambler, Herman Rosenthal, was
particularly horrifying for the Jewish community in that it opened up a
Pandora's Box of trials and testimonies profoundly unflattering to local
Jewry. Goren notes that
"The appalling fact was that the underworld segment which the trials
and the indefatigable press had so thoroughly laid bare consisted
almost
entirely of Jewish gangsters and gamblers. No longer could Jewish
apologists find comfort in viewing the phenomena as a rare deviation
from the norm. In the accounts, the criminals appeared as
commonplace East Side figures. Sons of hard-working parents, most
had been exposed as children to religious training and had led
average
family lives. Even considering the hired gangsters apart, one could
point
to exceptional and touching instances of family loyalty, pride in
one's
ethnic group, and knowledge of an affection for Jewish religious
tradition." [GOREN, p. 154]
"Jewish criminals," wrote Moses Rischin, "regularly made newspaper
headlines. The appearance of an ungovernable youth after the turn of the
century was undeniable and excited apprehension." [FRIED, p. xvi] In April
1911, for instance, 400 Jewish shopkeepers flooded a criminal court building
to complain and testify before a grand jury about robberies and gangs in
their neighborhoods. [FRIED, p. 26] In 1909 alone, 3,000 Jewish "youngsters"
appeared before an area juvenile court. [FRIED, p. 41] Gangster Monk Eastman
alone "bossed a Jewish street gang that could field as many as 1,200 men on
short notice." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 97] While many criminals were rooted
in poverty, some prominent Jewish gangsters -- like Arnold Rothstein and Big
Jack Zelig -- came from comfortable backgrounds. [FRIED, p. 40] The king of
Jewish crime in the era, Arthur Rothstein, "was a rich man's son." [COHEN,
R., p. 46] Monk Eastman's father "was solidly middle class, a restaurant
owner." [COHEN, R., p. 45] Israeli scholar Robert Rockaway discounts the
usual apologetics for Jewish gangsters, saying:
"More likely, these men selected careers in crime because they wanted
money, power, recognition and status; and they wanted it fast. Crime
offered them a quick way to realize their dreams." [ROCKAWAY, R.,
1993, p. 52]
"It was the Jews, by and large," says Norman Cantor, "not the
Italians, who created what was later called the Mafia. In the 1920s the
Italians began to replace the Jews in the New York organized crime industry,
but as late as 1940 if you wanted a spectacular hit you were looking for a
representative of the Lepke Buchalter Gang, also known as Murder Inc. Jews
were also prominent in the gambling trade and developed Las Vegas in the
1940s. It was a Jewish gambler who fixed the 1919 baseball World Series --
what became known as the Black Sox scandal." [CANTOR, p. 389] The
perpetrator of the scandal was Arnold Rothstein, notes Charles Silberman,
"the inventor of organized crime." [SILBERMAN, p. 128]
"It was with some astonishment," notes Jewish critic Marvin Kitman,
"that I discovered what an integral part of American Jewish life
crime
was. Our forefathers made names for themselves, such as they are,
as gangsters, murderers, musclemen, hit men, acid throwers, arm
breakers, bombers and all the other professions open to nice Jewish
boys. Prostitution, vice, alcohol, gambling, racketeering,
extortion,
and all the other things that fill the newspaper today and that I
gladly
have been attributing as character flaws in other groups of founding
fathers: Those were our things ... I was shocked at how deep our
roots are in all the sinks of depravity and corruption ... The Jews
were the first ones to realize the link between organized crime and
organized politics. They led the way in corrupting the police and
city
hall. They first realized the value of gang/syndicate cartels in
business
to reduce the killing of each other. They were monopolists of the
highest order ... We wrote the book, so to speak, on crime, but it's
all
forgotten." [KITMAN, p. 9]
"Some disgruntled Jewish immigrants," says Jonathan Sarna, "chose
crime as their vehicle of upward mobility. Through robbery and fencing
operations, they created a parasitic counter-industry that lived off the
garment trade, skimming its profits for personal benefit. Others made their
living by exploiting Jewish religious practices (the standard history of the
kosher-meat industry in New York is aptly entitled Fraud, Corruption, and
Holiness)." [SARNA, Jewish, p. 53]
Kosher meat is food that is prepared according to traditional Orthodox
religious standards; it presumably entails extra time and energy to prepare
which escalates prices to be higher than non-kosher food. An investigation
in New York City sponsored by a Jewish community organization in 1915
discovered that 60% of the meat sold as kosher was fraudulent: most rabbis
who supervised kosher sanctions were under slaughterhouse employ and
abandoned strict religious adherence. [GOREN, p. 79] Among 6,000 New York
area butchers who allegedly only sold kosher meat to fellow Jews, there were
"few who did not, at some point, deal in unkosher meat."[GASTWIRT, p. 113]
The Jewish slaughterhouse system was also involved in price-fixing,
extortion, racketeering, fist fights in the synagogue, and even murder. "The
intense rivalry and competition in the kosher poultry business," notes
Harold Gastwirt, "made it prey to racketeering and violence." [GASTWIRT, p.
46]
Jewish gangsters were also violently active in support of Jewish
unions or employers, depending upon who paid them. "Some of the so-called
Jewish unions," remarked a veteran of Jewish labor activities, "... fell
early in their careers upon evil days: underworld characters, gangsters, got
a foothold in the organization ... Unfortunately, the element engaged to
help would refuse to clear out when their services were no longer wanted."
[GOREN, p. 304] Rita Simon notes another of the political dimensions of
underworld [and New York City governmental] corruption:
"In exchange for police protection of his gang, [gang leader] Monk
[Easton] employed 'repeaters' (repeat voters) at the polls in favor of
Tammany Hall, the local Democratic machine." [SIMON, p. 139]
Jewish crime was widespread in a number of the largest urban areas of
America, some of it eventually "syndicated" throughout the country, at times
even in cooperation with the Italian mafia. In Chicago the Westside Jewish
underworld ward was known as the "Bloody Twentieth." A 1906 description of
the area claimed that "murderers, robbers, and thieves of the worst kind are
born, reared, and grow to maturity in numbers that far exceed the record of
any similar district on the face of the globe." [FRIED, p. 90] (Even Al
Capone's accountant, who later rose to further notoriety, was Jewish, Jake
"Greasy Thumb" Guzik.) [LACEY, p. 18] In Cleveland, the Jewish community had
its "noisome and brutal Woodland section"; in Detroit it was the eastside,
most prominently ruled by the Purple Gang; in Boston it was the Chelsea
quarter; Newark had its "fierce third ward"; and in Philadelphia Jewish
crime, featuring boss Harry Stromberg, was largely located in the southeast
area. These cities, with New York, says Albert Fried, "held the worst, that
is the most criminalized, of the Jewish neighborhoods in America." [FRIED,
p. 90] In London, England, notes Daniel Levy, "the Jews were involved in
assorted criminal activities. They committed petty thievery, forgery, and
illegal distilling of booze. Some sailed to eastern Europe and convinced
young girls that jobs and bachelors awaited them in England, only to ship
them off to Indian or Argentinean white slave markets." [LEVY, D, p. 20]
Earlier forms of blackmail by non-Jewish British gangs were "developed by
Jewish gangs (formed after the great immigration of the 1880s) into
extortion from legitimate shopkeepers. Much as Jewish gangsters liked to
portray themselves as honourable knights defending their co-religionists
against anti-Semitic thugs, they were just as likely to live as predators
upon their fellow Jews. A gang of extortionists known as the 'Bessarabians'
were headed by a professional boxer who called himself Max Moses in private
life and 'Kid McCoy' in the ring." [FIDO, M., 2000, p. 17]
Poland? In the early twentieth century, future Israeli prime minister
David Ben-Gurion was jailed in Warsaw, Poland, for suspected radical
political activism. "That was the first time," he said later,
"that I ever came into contact with the dregs of society. I was shaken
to the core at the language and behavior. I never had the slightest
notion
that such people ever existed ... The thing that shook me most was that
these criminals were Jews." [Daniel Kurzon suggests that these included
members of a rival Jewish political group which Ben-Gurion considered
"more dangerous criminals" than the "brothel keepers." [KURZMAN, D.,
1983, p. 67]
Prominent Jews in Chicago's criminal underworld included Louis 'Diamond
Louie' Cowan, Hymie 'the Loud Mouth' Levine, Sam 'Sammy the Greener'
Jacobson, Maxie Eisen, Murray 'the Camel' Humphreys, and (non-Jewish) Al
Capone's money man, Jake Guzik. [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 43] In 1924,
"Chicago Jewish leader" S. M. Melamed warned about the "great number of Jews
in the underworld." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 49]
"Bootlegging in Boston," notes Robert Rockaway,
"was controlled by Charles 'King' Solomon ... He headed one of the
largest liquor, vice, and narcotics smuggling syndicates in New
England ... In the 1920s, Solomon ran the Boston underworld."
[ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 34]
But even smaller cities, like Minneapolis and adjacent St. Paul, had
serious problems with Jewish crime. In November 1927 the Minneapolis
Saturday Press ran an article that enflamed local public opinion, quoting
the remarks of a non-Jewish gangster:
"90% of the crimes committed against society in this city are
committed
by Jew gangsters ... It is Jew, Jew, Jew, as long as one cares to comb
over the records. I am launching no attack against the Jewish people
as a
RACE. I am merely calling attention to a FACT." [FRIED, p. 113]
Originally from Sioux Falls, Iowa, prominent Jewish gangsters in
Minneapolis included "Kid" Cann (Isador Blumenfeld), Yiddie Bloom, and the
Berman brothers (Davie and Chickie). [LACEY, p. 66] Cann is believed to have
been responsible for the murder of Walter Ligget, publisher of Midwest
America, for a series of articles the paper printed about the Minneapolis
criminal underworld. Ligget was gunned down in front of his family while
Christmas shopping. "Much of [Minneapolis'] illicit business," notes Robert
Rockaway,
"was managed by Isadore 'Kid Cann' ... Blumenfeld and his all-Jewish
syndicate ... In 1942, the FBI identified Kid Cann as 'the overlord
of the Minneapolis, Minnesota underworld." [ROCKAWAY, R.,
1993, p. 48]
Cleveland mob leaders included Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, Sam Tucker,
and Lou Rothkopf. After prohibition, "the Cleveland mob joined with Lansky
and his confederates ... and formed the core of the most sophisticated
national crime syndicate in America." [BLOCK, A., p. 165] Shondor Birns
(Szandor Birnstein) was another prominent Cleveland mobster, lasting in the
criminal underworld for decades til 1975, when he was assassinated by a car
bomb. In early years, he was part of the Maxie Diamond (also Jewish) gang.
Among Birns' crime partners was Mervin Gold who "was accused of defrauding
banks and the Small Business Administration by using stolen Canadian bonds
as collateral for loans. He fled to Israel," but eventually returned. Birns,
noted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for his reputation as a "charming
killer," was suspected of Gold's eventual murder. [MCGUANGLE, F., 7-11-99,
p. 5H]
Reading, Pennsylvania? As non-Jewish mobster Patsy Lepera recounted in
his autobiography:
"Reading at that time, in the thirties and forties, was run by the
Minkers --
Abe and his brother Izzy. They had a nephew named Alex Fudeman
who fronted for them ... Even though my father was connected right
to Sicily, he had to do what the Jews wanted done in Reading, because
that was their town. They eliminated the Italians. At one time it was
a two-mob town ... One thing I learn as I go through life is if you
come
up against a Jew or an Italian, you check him out. You don't do nothing
against him -- you check him out careful. Jews don't belong to the
[Italian]
mob, but they're connected strong. An awful lot of Jews are connected
strong." [LEPERA, P., 1974, p. 7-8]
Missouri? Charlie Birger (born Sachna Itzik Berger), prominent
bootlegger, was hung in 1928 for the murder of the mayor of West City,
Missouri. He is believed to have been "responsible directly or indirectly
for the murders of at least a dozen people, many of whom had been his loyal
followers." One of the killed who was not a follower was a local Ku Klux
Klan leader. [DE NEAL, G., 1998, p. xviii]
To what lengths Jewish fraud and crime could go might be measured in
the chutzpah of Bernie Barton (originally Blaustein) who even set up a fake
church with a junkie as preacher as a "front for fencing stolen goods."
[DEUTSCH, G., p. 7]
A number of modern respectable Jewish fortunes were founded on links
to the underworld in the Prohibition era. Most noteworthy, the Seagram's
alcohol fortune (the Canadian Bronfman family) grew to power by getting
their alcohol into criminal hands who smuggled it into the United States.
Bronfman, who bristled when anyone called him a bootlegger, had a
distribution deal for his booze with Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky.
[BIRMINGHAM, p. 159] Detroit's largely Jewish Purple Gang was also extremely
active in running illegal booze from Windsor across the river border. The
Purple Gang's activities also included "gambling, prostitution, extortion,
loan sharking, and rackets of every kind." [FRIED, p. 102] So much smuggling
was going on between Canada and the United States across Lake Erie that it
was known as "the Jewish Lake." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 37] During
prohibition too, "[Federal] officials labeled sacramental wine [for
religious purposes] one of the chief sources of illegal liquor in the
nation," notes Jenna Weissman Joselit, "Furthermore, calling the record
level of usage a 'national scandal,' they saw the problem as largely a
Jewish one." [JOSELIT]
Here's what Israeli scholar Robert Rockaway says about Detroit's Purple
Gang, and Jewish gangs generally:
"During Prohibition (1920-1933), Jewish gangsters became major
operatives
in the American underworld and played prominent roles in the creation
of
organized crime in the United States. At the time, Jewish gangs
dominated illicit
activiites in a number of America's largest cities, including
Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Newark, New York, and Philadelphia.
The gang dealt in bootlegging, gambling, extortion, drugs, and murder,
and developed a reputation for being
more ruthless than Al Capone's mob in Chicago. The Purple's
decade-long reign
of terror ended when most of the gang's members either went to prison
or were murdered by rivals ... During the Prohibition era (1919-1933)
50 percent of the
country's leading bootleggers were Jews, and Jewish criminals financed
and
directed much of the nation's narcotics traffic ... While Jews
predominated in
their quarter [in Purple Gang-era Detroit], other immigrants and
ethnic groups
lived there as well. One former resident of the old neighorhood joked
that it was
of the old neighborhood joked that i was easy to distinguish the
Jewish dwelling
from those occupied by non-Jews. 'The non-Jews grew flowers in front
of their
houses,' he said. 'The Jews grew dirt.'" [ROCKAWAY, R., 2001, p. 113-]
Elsewhere, "bootlegging in Prohibition-era Philadelphia was directed by
Max 'Boo Boo' Huff ... Huff's successor as Philadelphia's dominant Jewish
mobster was Harry Stromberg, alias Nig Rosen ... He also led what was called
the '69th Street Gang' that dealt in prostitution, extortion and labor
racketeering. His influence extended as far as Washington, Baltimore, and
Atlantic City ... When Stromberg left Philadelphia, he was superceded by his
driver and bodyguard, Willie Weisberg, a long-time member of the city's
Jewish underworld." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 32, 34]
Another modern Jewish fortune similarly constructed is that of the
Annenbergs, which was founded upon Moses Annenberg's horse racing news
monopoly that he arranged with the criminal underworld. "That Annenberg and
the Prohibition and gambling mobs had interests in common is indisputable,"
says Albert Fried, "An information monopoly, nominally independent, gave the
mobs the wherewithal to police the complex, sprawling kingdom of the Book
[i.e., gambling and bookies]; it was an instrument of their sovereignty. In
return Annenberg was allowed to reap inordinate profits and become one of
the richest men in the land, the founder of one of its singular dynasties."
[FRIED, p. 118]
Another of the most prominent Jewish American family fortunes, the
"fabulously rich Pritzker family from Chicago," had links, however
indirectly, to organized crime even in more recent history. They were
involved, as "clients of the [Bruce] Kanter firm," who ran a variety of
shady Caribbean companies. Kanter, who "had direct ties to organized crime,"
[BLOCK, A., p. 162] served on the Hyatt hotel company's Board of Directors
(Hyatt is one of many companies owned by the Pritzkers). [BLOCK, A., p. 191]
Also, notes Allen Block,
"A little digging into their background produced troubling questions.
It was discovered that the source of some Pritzker money comes from
the racket-ridden Teamsters Pension Fund ... Investigators probing the
Pritzker empire were intrigued by its connection to the Pension Fund.
This was especially so when it discovered that both [mob-linked] Jimmy
Hoffa and Allen Dorfman personally worked on Pritzker loans."
[BLOCK, A., p. 192]
In 1997, major publishers afforded two legendary Jewish conmen of
international (dis)repute respective biographies. Adam Worth started out
re-joining and re-deserting various Civil War regiments (both Union and
Confederate) for enlistment bonuses and later expanded his exploits into
forgery, larceny, robbery, burglary, and other criminal mainstays. In
England, Sir Robert Anderson, head of Criminal Investigations at Scotland
Yard, observed in 1907 that "Adam Worth was the Napoleon of crime. None
other could hold a candle to him." The Pinkerton security agency noted that
"in the death of Adam Worth there probably departed the most inventive and
daring criminal in modern times ... Among all the men Pinkertons have known
in a life time, this man was the most remarkable criminal of them all."
[MCINTYRE, p. 287] Novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used Worth as his model
for Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis. An important
associate in Worth's earlier years was "Mother" Mandelbaum, described in her
era as "the great crime promoter of modern times," the "most successful
fence in the history of Newy York" and the woman who "first put crime in
America on a syndicated basis." Starting in 1862, over the next two decades
she was reputed to have "handled between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 worth of
stolen property." [MCINTYRE, B., 1997, p. 29, 30]
A few years later another real-life rogue (and Jewish) notable, Morris
Cohen (the subject of the second biography), rose from a life as a western
Canadian circus barker and pickpocket to an adventurous life as an arms
dealer, bodyguard, and general to Chinese leader Sun Yat-Sen. [LEVY, D.]
Later he served under Chiang Kai-Shek. He also functioned as a liaison for
Zionist influences to Chinese leadership. [UROFSKY, M., 1978, p. 99]
A similar Jewish con-man was Elias Abraham Rosenberg, a "rascal" who arrived
in Hawaii in 1887. There, he
"ingratiated himself with King David Kalakaua by his chanting and
so-called
occult powers. He soon became the King's soothsayer and astrologer,
acquiring
such power over the monarch that the Hawaiian press bitterly denounced
him
as a 'Holy Moses.' Rosenberg taught the King some Hebrew and was
persuaded
to appoint him appraiser of customs. He was given quarters in the
Iolani Palace,
where he practiced magic, read the stars, and chanted Bible stories in
Hebrew."
[KOPPMAN/POSTAL, 1978, p. 229-230]
In 1998, Jewish fraudster Trebitsch Lincoln was also afforded a
biography. Lincoln, noted a reviewer, was "the king of dupers" and "a
thwarted megalomaniac who was also a champion con man." Born in Hungary in
1879, he immigrated to England and converted to Christianity. He became a
member of Parliament, and later tried to become a British, and then a
German, spy. He turned up as a supporter of the right-wing Kapp Putsch in
Berlin in 1920, became an abbot of a Buddhist temple in Shanghai, fleeced
his devotees, welcomed invading Japanese, became a Nazi
apologist/propagandist and on and on in the life of a human chameleon.
[BERRY, N., 5-8-98, p. 28]
In 1999, the (London) Daily Mail highlighted the Kray twins, Ronnie
and Reggie, "of Jewish and Romany stock." Both were imprisoned in the 1960s.
Only Reggie survives, "the best-known gangster in Britain ... By 1963,
through their networks of thugs and thieves, Ronnie and Reggie were lording
it over London's underworld and became figures in London society."
Decades after the likes of Worth and Cohen, famous Jewish underworld
figures like Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky made the American scene. Siegel
was instrumental in creating the legalized crime-laden playground of Las
Vegas, starting things off at the Flamingo Hotel. Joseph Sacher headed the
nearby Sands Hotel; Sacher "was second only to Lansky in the [crime]
Syndicate. Years ... [later] he fled the U.S. and went into exile in
Israel." [KELLEY, K., p. 219] Allen Friedman notes another early Jewish
criminal influence in Sin City: "The real potential of Las Vegas was not
understood until Moe Sedway arrival in 1941." [FRIEDMAN, A., p. 82]
Meyer Lansky eventually "retired" from a successful life of crime with
some $150-300 million after corrupt escapades that included Florida's "Gold
Coast," the Bahamas, and a gambling resort in pre-Castro Cuba. "At the
height of his notoriety," says Robert Lacey, "Meyer Lansky was reckoned to
be, and was targeted by the U.S. Justice Department as, the biggest gangster
in the United States -- a dangerous lawbreaker of extraordinary power. He
was identified as the Mafia's banker, the boss of the National Crime
Syndicate, the head of the Combination -- the Chairman of the Board."
[LACEY, R., p. 10-11]
Las Vegas has long been a hotbed of underworld influence and a
worldwide attraction for gambling and prostitution. The Italian Mafia has
also, from the conception of Las Vegas as a leisure Mecca, held great sway
in the city, but its most famous underworld personages have always been
Jewish mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. The great scope of Jewish
contribution to the creation, and dubious ethics, of Las Vegas may be
measured by the words of professor Allen Balboni. Here he discusses the
development of the desert city as a gambling resort area:
"Most of the [Las Vegas] hotel builders were Jewish Americans.
Jay Sarno and Nate Jacobson were associated with Caesar's Palace
[Sarno later created Circus Circus]; Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman,
and Sam Tucker with the Desert Inn (and, along with Jake Factor,
with the Stardust after [Italian-American Tony] Cornero's death);
Sidney Wyman, Al Gottesman, and Jake Gottleib with the early years
of the Dunes; Gus Greenbaum, Moe Sedway, and Charlie Resnick
with managing the Flamingo after Bugsy Siegel's death; Ben Goffstein,
Willie Alderman, and David Berman with the booking and running of the
Riviera; Milton Prell with the establishment of the Sahara and then
with
the transformation of the Tally-Ho into the Aladdin; Hyman Abrams, Carl
Cohen, and Jack Entratter with the ownership and operation of the
Sands; and Ben Jaffe, Phil Kastel, and Jell Houssels (of Anglo-Saxon
background) with the construction and operation of the Tropicana ... A
few Italian-Amerians hold minor ownership shares in casinos."
[BALBONI, p. 27]
Jewish singer Eddie Fisher recalls a Las Vegas offer he had at the peak
of his career that he now regrets turning down:
"When I was working at the Desert Inn I met with a man named Billy
Weinberger, who told me, 'We're building a new hotel and we want to
give you fifty percent of it.' In return I would perform there
permanently
and would use my influence to attract other major stars. That sounded
interesting. 'What's it going to be called?' I asked. 'Caesar's
Palace.'"
[FISHER, E., 1999, p. 292]
Bernie Rothkopf also owned the MGM Hotel. Allen Glick was, between
1974-79, "the mob's front man at the Stardust, Fremont, Hacienda, and Marina
hotels." [MORRISON, J.A., p. 1A] "In July, 1979 Allen Glick was stripped of
his Nevada gambling license and fined over $500,000 for a variety of
improprieties." Glick sold his interests in casinos to Allan Sachs, who was,
with a partner, "figureheads for the Chicago mob responsible for providing
skim monies" from Las Vegas gambling operations. [MOLDEA, 1989, p. 336]
Jerome Mack, past president of the Dunes and Riviera, was a former national
chairman of the Israel Bonds Campaign. Jewish entrepreneur Hank Greenspon
owned the Las Vegas Sun newspaper and a local TV station. [See his efforts
for Israel in the mass media section]
In more recently years, Arthur Goldberg is the CEO of Park Place
Entertainment, a conglomeration of 29 hotel-casinos [JENKINS, P., 5-30-99]
worldwide (Caesar's Palace, Bally's, etc.) that is twice the size of its
nearest competitor. Its Stardust division is the world's largest hotel
company. Elsewhere, Sheldon Adelson, chairman of the Sands, is also the
owner of Venetian, a new Las Vegas complex built in 1999 at a cost of $1.6
billion. Adelson is "one of richest men in America," in 1998 worth about
$600 million. [STOLL, I., 1-7-00, p. 1] Adelson, noted the Las Vegas
Review-Journal, "is one of the country's largest donors to Jewish groups and
he has influence in the national Jewish community." [RALSTON] Adelson,
notes the (Jewish) Forward, "has paid for 75 congressmen to visit Israel
with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee [the pro-Israel lobbying
organization]." [STOLL, I., p. 1] As Joe Gelman noted in 1999, "A number of
these sin-palace operators are Jewish and strong supporters of Israel."
[GELMAN, p. 15B] [Author Gelman complains about the use of this citation
here].
The chairman of the Mirage, Steve Wynn, is also Jewish. (The funds for
Wynn's first casino, the Golden Nugget, was in large part raised by
convicted Jewish financier Michael Milken). [JOHNSTON, D., p. 74] The Las
Vegas mayor, Oscar Goodman, elected in 1999, is the former president of
Temple Beth Sholom. He also has a reputation as a "mob lawyer," defending,
among others, Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky and Frank Rosenthal. Rosenthal,
notes the Las Vegas Review-Journal, "is credited by some with founding the
modern day Las Vegas sports book but was repeatedly denied a gambling
license because of association with organized crime members." [ZAPLER, p.
1A]
All of this, in more recent years, has its mirror image in Atlantic
City and, increasingly, other American gambling Meccas. Kenny Shapiro, for
instance, was "the Atlantic investment banker for [Italian American mafioso]
Nicky Scarfo, the vicious killer who ruled the Philadelphia Mafia, the most
murderous mob family in America." [JOHNSTON, D., 1992, p. 82]
Another influential Jewish gambling mogul today is Sol Kerzner, founder
and principal owner of Sun City (also known as "Sin City"), a resort
playground created in 1979 in a poverty-stricken area of apartheid South
Africa. Kerzner's modern empire has expanded with extravagant casinos in
Atlantic City, New Jersey, the Bahamas, Mauritus, France, and a Native
American site in Connecticut. An alleged bribery scheme involving the Jewish
mayor of Capetown, David Bloomberg, in 1986 held up -- for a while -- his
United States investments.
"Sun City," notes reporter Jay Clarke, "started out as a 'Sin City,' a
place where South Africans could let their hair down because it was located
then in the so-called 'independent homeland' of Bophuthatswana. Gambling,
show-girl revenues, and prostitution were the lures." [CLARKE, p. TR1] "If
ever there was an appropriate setting for corruption it is Sun City," noted
the (London) Guardian, "situated as it is in one of nine homelands which
represent the cornerstones of that most corrupt of social systems,
apartheid." [BERESFORD, p. 18] One of the Israelis who made millions off
the immoral socio-political system surrounding Sun City is Shabtai
Kalmanovitch; he worked as an "economic advisor" to Bophuthatswana' s
dictator. [BERESFORD, p. 18] )
In recent years Sun City has attempted to diversify by creating a
family-oriented "Lost City" adventure park adjoining the casino. "The patent
reason why the Lost City has been designed as a family playground and
entertainment centre," says the (London) Guardian,
"is that it entices the public into gaming. The corridors leading to
the
main casino even feature children's versions of slot machines --
game
machines -- which could with some justification be described as
nursery slopes inculcating the joys (or otherwise) of adult
addiction
to the one-armed bandits packing the main 'treasure hall.'"
[BERESFORD, p. 18]
Many Jewish (and other) mob figures were also involved in the gambling
industry in Cuba until the communist revolution destroyed their operations.
"After the loss of Cuba and the clampdown on the Mafia by the Kennedy
Justice Department," notes Dan Moldea, "Meyer Lansky and the organized crime
syndicate had targeted the Bahamas as its new off-shore gambling and
narcotics empire." [MOLDEA, 1989, p. 128]
In the casino/resort/hotel world of the Bahamas, and its criminal
underworld, Jews have also been prominent. Among those who find a place in
Alan Block's book about organized crime on these islands are
* Louis Arthur Chesler who "served as [mobster] Lansky's point man ...
Among Chesler's criminal specialties was the handling of stolen
securities." [p. 34-35]
* Morris Mac Schwabel, a Manhattan attorney, formerly convicted of
securities fraud. [p. 36]
* Joseph Jacob Frankel, who in the early 1960s "teamed up with Charles
'Ruby' Stein and [Italian mafioso] Nicholas 'Jiggs' Farlano who were
major organized crime figures." [p. 89]
* Arthur Millgram, president of Automated Ticket Systems (it had
contracts with the New York lottery system), who was murdered in
1977. [p. 91]
* Joel Mallin, a lawyer who had "ties to the mob." [p. 91]
* Irving Kahn, partner with "mob attorney Morris Shenker." [p. 95]
* C. Gerald Goldsmith, who "was the Board Chairman of the [Nassau]
Port Authority, DEVCO, and several related firms. This put him in
the middle of one of the largest political payoff scams in the
Bahamas.
... One of his duties was the illegal siphoning of company funds into
the hidden bank accounts for political payoffs." [p. 95, 98]
* Ben Novack, owner of Miami's Fountainbleau hotel, who was an
"associate of prominent gangsters Lansky, Coppola, and others
including Max Eder, a loanshark and suspected labor racketeer
with a history of gambling, robbery, narcotics, and homicide
arrests." [p. 115]
* "Cleveland racketeers Morris Kleinman and Moe Dalitz." [p. 116]
* Burt Kanter, a lawyer who had "direct ties to organized crime. [p.
162]
He was a senior member of the law firm Kanter, (Milton) Levenfeld,
(Charles) Lippitz and (Roger) Baskes.
* Allen Dorfman, who was "murdered in 1985 to prevent him from
talking about mob investments ... [He] was in the same league as
Glick, Shenker, and Malnik." [p. 164]
Even among many of the most vicious Jewish thugs, worldwide
collectivist Jewish loyalty usually finds expression. "During Israel's war
of independence," says Gerald Krefetz, "[Meyer Lansky] killed an arms
exporter who was selling to Arab countries. Lansky has contributed
substantial funds from his gambling fortunes to Jewish causes, particularly
to the United Jewish Appeal." [KREFETZ, p. 116] "A Jew should lead a normal
life and a proud life," Lansky once remarked, "... I've been ready at any
time in my life to defend myself against insults to Jews or to me as a Jew."
[SARNA, Jewish, p. 55] In Russia, in warring leading to the Communist
revolution, "real life gangster [Jewish] Misha Yaponchik ... helped to
defend Odessa's Jews from the Whites [loyal to the Tsar] but was afterwards
killed by the [Communist] Reds." [SICHER, p. 172] In England, Jewish
criminal Jacob Comacho (aka Jack Spot) started "to establish the reputation
for violence that would cause his rise. He called himself the "King of
Aldgate." "When Oswald Mosley's Fascists started to infest the East End [of
London] chanting, 'We gotta get rid of the Yids,' Spot became a local hero,
taking a lead-weighted chair leg to inflict a savage beating on one of
Mosely's roughnecks at the battle of Cable Street. Spot's exultant
recollection of the incident from his placid law-abiding retirement in the
'80s was still capable of startling a young journalist by the revelation of
relished brutality ... He liked to think of himself as the strong man who
could be sent for by any Jewish businessman in trouble anywhere, from
Glasgow to London. He would then bash the businessmen's enemies, and in
return help himself to clothing, food and drink, and spare cash as he needed
it. Rabbis recommended him to their congregations, as Spot tells it." [FIDO,
M., 2000, p. 32-33]
"During Prohibition," notes Israeli scholar Robert Rockaway, "fifty per
cent of the leading bootleggers were Jewish, and Jewish criminals financed
and directed much of the nation's narcotics traffic ... At the same time, a
number of these mobsters, quietly and without publicity, defended and
assisted the Jewish community. Despite their aversion to 'these black sheep
of Israel,' many ordinary Jews appreciated the gangster's protection,
whereas communal leaders accepted and sometimes solicited their aid.'"
[ROCKAWAY, p. 215] Jewish mobster Mickey Cohen, for instance, was
particularly active in raising money for the Jewish terrorist group IRGUN in
its attacks against the British (and Arabs) in Palestine. [BIRMINGHAM, p.
281] "Just how aware, in 1947," says Stephen Birmingham, "American Jews were
aware of the role of organized crime in the fight for an independent Israel
is unclear. Probably most were not aware. Those who were, numbed by reports
of the Holocaust that were at last appearing in the American media,
preferred to look the other way or to take the attitude that the end
justifies the means." [BIRMINGHAM, p. 284]
The Jewish criminal underworld was also helpful to Israel in getting
weapons to Israel in its early years. Yehuda Arazi, an arms purchaser for
the Haganah organization, even made contacts with the Jewish-based Murder,
Inc. gang, looking for help. "In my busines," said Arazis, "We can't be too
fussy who we do business with. Sometimes they're not nice people."
[ROCKAWAY, p. 230] Other underworld contacts arranged for Israeli agents to
conceal arms smuggling out of New York City. Jewish criminals even had links
to the President of Panama who allowed illegal Israeli arms shipments to
sail under the Panama flag. [ROCKAWAY, p. 231] In 1947 gangster Mickey Cohen
helped fund-raising efforts for the terrorist Irgun gang fighting the
British in Palestine. Jewish criminals pooled about $120,000 for the Irgun
cause." [ROCKAWAY, p. 232-233] Jewish gangsters like Allie Tennebaum, says
Rich Cohen, "did live to see the emergence of a strong Israel, and they must
have seen it as something to rejoice over, proof that not everything the
gangsters believed in was wrong." [KAUFMAN, G., p. 2]
Susan Berman, daughter of gangster David Berman, wrote that her father
was, as Jonathan Sarna sardonically notes, "a Jewish role model." He was
"extremely proud of being Jewish," notes Ms. Berman, " ... He felt that for
a Jewish child to be properly brought up, there must be a synagogue, a
rabbi, and a cantor in evidence." [SARNA, JEWISH, p. 55] Another Jewish
author, Rich Cohen, romanticizes gangster murder as some kind of affirmative
act of redemption, delighting in Jewish violence so strongly that he can
write:
"When [Abe] Reles took a mark [murdered someone], he was not just
ending a life: he was expressing the essential freedom of the Jew in
America." [KAUFMAN, p. 2]
"America," wrote another Jewish author, Albert Fried, about Jewish
gangsters," is embracing Bugsy Siegel's vision; his martyrdom [he was
murdered by other mobsters] was not in vain." [SARNA, JEWISH, p. 55]
"Bombast of this sort," complains Jonathan Sarna in a review of Fried's
volume, "is obviously meant, in part, to pander to a potential Jewish
audience, trying to fashion for it folk heroes of the same
'gentleman-bandit' type as non-Jews enjoy. Jewish criminals are thus
portrayed as being proud of their heritage, big givers to charity, and
strong supporters of the state of Israel." [SARNA, JEWISH, p. 55]
Is this an artificial portrayal that Jewish gangsters were integral
to, and respected by, many in Jewish neighborhoods, and loyal to the
burgeoning state of Israel? After the assassination of gangster Big Jack
Zelig in 1912, during his New York City funeral procession "the streets of
all around Broome Street were jammed," said Jewish detective Abe Schoenfeld,
"A choir consisting of twelve singers conducted by Cantor Goldberg of
Newark, New Jersey, sang their Jewish hymns as the procession proceeded down
Delaney Street to the bridge. There was an unbroken line of people covering
the sidewalk watching the funeral. Only the funeral of Rabbi Joseph (a
revered spiritual leader) surpassed this --the funeral of Jack Zelig."
[ROCKAWAY, p. 217]
In Chicago, the death of criminal Samuel "Nails" Morton attracted
"five thousand Jewish mourners, including rabbis [who] accompanied Morton's
hearse to the cemetery. Local reporters wanted to know why so many Jews
would attend the funeral of a notorious gangster." [ROCKAWAY, p. 218] The
reason, argues Robert Rockaway, is an old one: Jewish unity against
non-Jewish enemies.
Between both the Jewish criminal underworld and respectable Jewry,
there were especially strong feelings of solidarity against anti-Jewish
right-wing political movements. In the 1930s, for example, prominent
gangster Meyer Lansky was solicited by a New York City judge and former
Congressman, Nathan Perlman, and New York's most famous rabbi, Stephen Wise,
to arrange violent attacks against pro-German groups in America. [ROCKAWAY,
p. 220, COHEN, R., p. 190] ] As late as 1992 the Synagogue of the Suburban
Torah in Livingston, New Jersey, sponsored a tribute occasion in honor of a
Jewish gangster, Max "Puddy" Hinkes, who had decades earlier organized
violent Jewish mobster attacks upon pro-Nazi sympathizers in the area.
[ROCKAWAY, p. 223] In Minneapolis, "gambling czar" David Berman led Jewish
underworld assaults upon pro-Nazi conferences in the 1930s [ROCKAWAY, p.
224]; likewise, Mickey Cohen instigated similar violence in Los Angeles.
[ROCKAWAY, p. 227] For some Jews, Cohen's claim that he single-handedly beat
up two Nazi-types locked in a jail cell with him is welcome legend. [COHEN,
R., 1999, p. 191] Even Jack Ruby, assassin of JFK assassin Lee Harvey
Oswald,
"with several friends, frequently attempted to disrupt rallies of the
German-American Bund. One acquaintance reported that Ruby
was responsible for 'cracking a few heads' of Bund members.
Apparently he joined in this activity for ethnic rather than political
reasons. The young men in the group were not organized adherents
of any particular political creed, but were pool hall and tavern
companions from Ruby's Jewish neighborhood who gathered on
the spur of the moment to present opposition when they learned that
pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic Bund movement was planning a meeting."
[WARREN COMMISSION, 1964, p. 696]
"From Arthur Rothstein and Meyer Lansky to their modern day successors
in the Americas, Israel or the Soviet Union," says Joel Kotkin, "Jewish
criminals have succeeded in everything from murder for hire to smuggling.
Yet, even in crime, both emphasis and cultural preference lay with the
successful use of sechel (smarts) rather than brute force." [KOTKIN]
It is curious that Kotkin concedes a Jewish criminal tradition but
accepts another mythology about modern Jewry - that Jews were/are smart, but
never violent. One of the many Jewish mobsters recruited to help Israel was
Bugsy Siegel. "Siegel," says Robert Rockaway, "remained enthusiastic about
violence. Even after he became a major crime boss, he wanted to do the
killing himself rather than simply arrange matters. This may explain his
willingness to help Israel once he learned that Jews were willing to kill to
achieve their state." [ROCKAWAY, p. 231] Other exceptionally prominent
Jewish murderers in America's criminal underworld included Louis "Lepke"
Buchalter, head of Murder, Inc., and "one of the most vicious gangsters in
the annals of American crime ... Between sixty and eighty men died on
Lepke's orders. They were burned in gasoline, buried in quicklime, shot,
stabbed with ice picks, or garroted." [ROCKAWAY, 1993, p. 17] Lewis "Pretty"
Amberg "was one of New York's best known killers, having 'rubbed out' from
eighteen to a hundred men, no one knew for sure." [ROCKAWAY, 1993, p. 22]
Charley Workman "was said to have killed twenty men ... he was so expert at
assassination." [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 193] Harry "Pittsburg Phil" Strauss
was "perhaps the most famous professional killer in American gangster
history ... [He] killed over 100 (some say over 400) men from the late 1920s
to 1940s, making him the most prolific killer in New York." [ROCKAWAY, R.,
1993, p. 149]
"Detroit police," adds Robert Rockaway, "credit the [the all-Jewish Detroit]
Purple Gang with over 500 killings, more than the Capone mob. This caused
Herbert Ausbury, a historian of American crime, to call the gang 'the most
efficiently organized gang of killers in the United States.'" [ROCKAWAY, R.,
2001, p. 113-]
Rich Cohen, who wrote a book about Jewish crime, noted his own family's
reaction to what he discovered in his research:
"They really had no idea just how bad [Jewish criminals] were. I
didn't
really know how violent they were, or how many people they killed
or how many times they were arrested. You come to see them as
people. Even within that world, some of them were worse than others.
With some, it was just the situation. And some of them were just
killers." [KERNICKY, p. 1E]
Cohen also noted that some of New York's Jewish gangsters gathered at
his grandmother's restaurant:
"When I told [my grandmother] of my interest in writing about the
restaurant and also about the gangsters and their table in back, her
face clouded over, 'They'll kill you,' she said, 'These men, they're
not like you. They'll kill a boy like you.'
When I pointed out that these men --Reles, Strauss, Goldstein,
Maione, Abbandando -- were long dead, she shook her head and
said, 'They'll kill you.'" [COHEN, R., 1999, p. 35]
Yet, adds Cohen, "When [Abe] Reles and the boys were hanging out at my
grandparents' diner and the cops came by, my great-grandmother would hide
their guns in the onions. She hated gangsters, but she hated people she
thought hated Jews more." The endemic anti-Semites Cohen refers to here are
generic policemen. [COHEN, R., p. 156]
A Jewish columnist, Brian Viner, at Great Britain's Jewish Chronicle
notes Rich Cohen's look into Jeish criminal history, like this:
"That I know all this is thanks largely to my estimable cousin Ben, a fount
of information on Jewish gangster matters. I phoned him the other night and
he told me, just as I might tell someone that Arensal are top the league by
a point, that of 60,000 Jews living in Argentina by the 1920s, 9,000 were
involved in prostitution rackets. You have to admit it's a conversation
stopper. Ben -- a big fan of Rich Cohen's book 'Tough Jews,' not the least
for its story of Red Levine, a hitman who wouldn't kill anyone on Shabbat --
is a Glaswegian, whose own father was threatened with imprisonment in 1916
for his involvement in a gambling den. And, according to Ben, some of the
nastiest loan sharks in pre-war Glasgow were Jewish." [VINER, B., 11-29-02,
p. 37]
Jewish author Gloria Deutsch also notes today's Jewish blinders to
their inglorious turn-of-the-century American past:
"We were always conditioned to believe Jews didn't do these things,
but
here is Sandy Sadowsky [author of My Life in the Jewish Mafia] with
her hair-raising stories of gangland murders, prostitution, rackets,
strong-arm men -- the shtarkers who exacted revenge and protected
their bosses -- and one wonders if believing in the myth of Jewish
crimelessness (other than a spot of fraud here and there) wasn't
anything more than a huge collective ostrich act." [DEUTSCH, p. 7]
Jewish violent criminality today also goes against the popular myths
of an absolute non-violence in the Jewish community. "The concept of Jewish
convicts serving serious jail time," noted the Los Angeles Times in 1995,
"runs counter to a popular stereotype that Jewish felons tend to be
nonviolent types who serve their sentences in minimum security cells ...
Jews outside of prison often find this [fact of Jewish murderers] hard to
deal with." "The people who know about it are kind of amazed," Howard Cohn,
a part-time rabbi at the Pennsylvania State Corrections Institute told the
Times. "They can't believe there are really Jews in a prison like this."
[BEALE, p. A5]
In the most sensational genre, New York serial killer David Berkowitz
("Son of Sam") was Jewish (he was adopted by a Jewish family as an infant),
as was Joel Rifkind [EFTMIADES, p. 75] of Long Island, who into the early
1990s strangled to death at least 17 women, mostly New York prostitutes. "He
went, picked up a prostitute, had sex with her, killed her, and dumped her."
[EFTIMIADES, p. 90-91] In the 1920s, one of America's most sensational
crimes, splashed all over the country's newspapers, was that of the Leopold
and Loeb boys: "A pair of wealthy young members of Chicago's Jewish
bourgeoisie in the early 20s, they kidnapped a young man, Bobby Franks, and
murdered him as a kind of Nietzchean experiment; after their arrest, it was
revealed that they had a sexual relationship too." [BARBOUR, D., 1998] At
the time, it was popularized as "the crime of the century." [ABRAHAMSEN, D.,
1983, p. 41] Amy Fisher, who received a great deal of press in New York
tabloids as the "Long Island Lolita," was jailed in 1992 for shooting the
wife of her lover. [PORTER, B., 5-11-99, p. A6]
Even in an Orthodox religious community, in 1990, the Jewish Week ran
an article about today's New York Satmar Chasidic community, "notorious for
its violent actions against other Jewish groups [which] has imploded into a
war against itself. Pitting supporters of the deceased Satmar Rabbi against
supporters of his successor ... In the Brooklyn area of Williamsburg, home
to more than 30,000 Satmars, four cars belonging to one faction were set on
fire last week, while as many as 500 Satmars watched and cheered. Three
Satmars, in one of the burning cars, needed to be rescued by police, who
were also trying to control the Satmar onlookers." [MARK, J, Satmar]
Satmar violence against others has increasingly spread against
non-Jewish neighbors. "Recent years," wrote Jonathan Mark in 1990, "have
seen an explosion of tension between all chasidim and their Black and
Hispanic neighbors. Most recently, Hispanic groups have complained that the
Satmars act like they have the right of eminent domain over Brooklyn's
Williamsburg neighborhood, where many Satmars reside. They have charged that
chasidic men have sexually harassed non-Jewish women, that chasidic security
patrols are actually racially motivated vigilantes." [MARK, SATMAR, p. 4]
In the more overtly political context (and not Orthodox), in an
entire book about assassinations (limited only to those deemed "political")
carried out by Jews in Palestine/Israel from 1882 to 1988, Israeli scholar
Nachum Ben David itemizes 91 cases of "assassination events" committed by
Jews. (An assassination is defined by this author in his title as "a
rhetorical device for justice"). Most murder victims were other Jews who
were considered "traitors/collaborators/squealers/informers." [BEN DAVID, p.
418] "We are not dealing with a lone fanatic killer [in these cases],"
stresses Ben David, "but with a premeditated planned act, committed by a
group or by a representative of a group." [BEN YEHUDA, p. xxi]
Aside from a possible volume about Jewish gangster murders, no doubt a
similar volume could be created about Jewish assassinations under the
auspices of Russian communism. Just before, and after, the creation of the
Soviet state, assassinations by Jews, in one form or another, sometimes as
secret police agents, are many. Mark Zborowsky, for instance, (a later
immigrant to America where he became a university professor), in league with
fellow Jews Naum Eitingon and Grigory Rabinovich, was instrumental in the
operation to murder Trotsky's son, Lev Sedov. [VAKSBERG, p. 96] Arkady
Vaksberg notes another case of Jews murdering Jews:
"The murder of two Jews whom Stalin hated [Efraim Sklyansky
and Isiah Khurgin] had been organized by two other Jews, Kanner
and Yagoda. Let us add that Kanner's assistant, Bombin, and
Mekhil's assistants, Makhovev and Yuzhak, were all Jewish."
[VAKSBERG, p. 28]
In 1904, the Russian Minister of Interior, Vlacheslav Plehve, also fell
to a Jewish assassin. [LINDEMANN, A., 1997, p. 296] In 1906, in the Russian
town of Grodno, "Jewish partisans assassinated the Russian district
commander of police." In 1908, the chief of police from another town,
Bialystok, came to Grodno. This time, "the Jew who tried to shoot him died
in prison." [LACEY, p. 18] In September of 1911 another Jewish assassin,
Dmitry Bogrov, shot and killed Pyotr Stolypin, a prominent Russian official,
at the Kiev Opera Theatre. [SINGER, N, p. 2] Another Jewish would-be
killer, Fanya Kaplan, also shot V. I. Lenin through the neck in a failed
assassination attempt in early communist Russia, saying that he had
"betrayed the Revolution." [LEVYTSKY, p. 29] On the same day, "the Cheka
leader Uritsky was shot to death in August 1918 by a distinguished Jewish
poet and army officer named Kannegiesser who 'was revolted by the fact that
so many of the Bolsheviks were Jewish.'" [WEYL, N., 1968, p. 198]
In 1926, another Jewish assassin, Shalom Schwartzbard, murdered
Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petlura, in Paris. (Petlura was in exile from
his homeland; he formerly led the Ukrainian army against Bolshevik attack).
As noted earlier, a Jewish woman was also a member of the team that
assassinated Tsar Alexander II. And, as noted before also, those who
directed (and participated in) the murder of the royal family during the
Russian Revolution were also largely Jewish. Even in Argentina, "on May Day
1909, during a workers' demonstration in Buenos Aires, a Jewish anarchist
murdered a local police chief," thereby igniting anti-Jewish rioting.
[SACHAR, H., 1985, p. 281]
Elsewhere, during the rise of Nazi fascism in Germany, notes Franklin
Ford, "paradoxically, during their movement's first years in power, Nazis
were the victims, not the perpetrators of two sensational murders of
German's residing in foreign parts." [FORD] In 1936 a Nazi official in
Switzerland, Wilhelm Gustloff, was assassinated by a Jewish student, David
Frankfurter. In 1938 Ernst von Rath, a German embassy official in Paris was
killed by Herschel Grynszpan. The Nazis used this act as an excuse to
respond with intensified savagery to the German Jewish population. Years
earlier, in 1918, long before the Nazis came to power, a Russian Jew, Yakov
Blumkin, assassinated the German ambassador to Moscow, Count Mirbach.
[SUDOPLATOV, p. 189] Kurt Eisner, the Jewish prime minister of Bavaria, was
also assassinated in 1918 by Count Arco Valley, "a young man who felt
stigmatized by the fact that his mother was Jewish." [GRUNFELD, F., 1996, p.
123]'
As Leon Schapiro notes about late 19th century Russia and the formation
of a communist base there:
"When Jews thronged into the party after 1881 the number of Jewish
terrorists was very high. There were important Jewish terrorists, like
Gershuni, for example, in the socialist revolutionary party which
evolved during the present century as the heir of the 'People's Will'
... In more recent times one could cite the extensive Jewish
participation in the savageries of the Red Terror of the Cheka [the
secret police] -- or even events in Palestine." [SCHAPIRO, L., 1961,
p. 152]
In America, in 1892 famous Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman and two
comrades decided to assassinate millionaire Henry Clay Frick. "In
desperation [Goldman] tried whoreing [sic] (unsuccessfully) on 14th Street
[in New York] to raise the money for a gun, and [Alexander] Berkman went to
Pittsburgh to pull the trigger." [SHULMAN, A., 1970, p. 10] The
assassination attempt by Berkman was carried out, but Frick survived his
wound.
Also in America, in 1974 Samuel Byck, another Jewish would-be assassin,
embarked on a sensationally bizarre suicidal scheme to kill President
Richard Nixon. He murdered a security guard at the Baltimore/Washington
airport, stormed into a jet and demanded to the pilots that it take off and
follow his orders. His plan was to crash the plane into the White House.
Technically unable to accommodate him, Byck murdered the two pilots before
he was, in turn, shot and killed by authorities. [CLARKE, J., p. 128-142]
More famous, of course, in Texas, was Jack Ruby (born Jacob
Rubinstein), the (Jewish) murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who is
believed to have killed John F. Kennedy. Ruby had interests in six
Dallas-area strip-tease clubs. As Gerald Posner notes:
"Ruby often resulted to violence with his employees, and lost the tip
of his left index fingers when one bit it off during a scuffle. He beat
one of his musicians with brass knuckles, cracked another's head
with a blackjack, knocked another's teeth out, and put the club's
handyman in the hospital with a severe beating. To avoid paying the
club's cigarette girl $50 in back wages, he threatened to throw he
down the stairs until she relented her claim ... He was not above
attacking people from behind, kicking men in the groin or face once
he had them to the floor, or even striking women ... He was often
malicious, forcing beaten victims to crawl out of the club on hands
and knees." [POSNER, p. 357]
Paul Krassner also notes this about Ruby: "Lenny [Bruce, the famous
Jewish comic] told me, 'I know other comics who have worked for Jack Ruby.
Dig this. They say he has a tattoo of a vagina on his upper arm, and
whenever he flexes his muscle, the vagina dilates open." [KRASSNER, P.,
1993, p. 60]
Ruby's killing of Oswald erased his looming testimony, as well as any
other person's or organization's involvement in the most famous political
assassination in American history. "In Dallas, Texas," noted Jewish scholar
Barnet Litvinoff, "a man born with the name Rubinstein who subsequently
eliminated its Jewish-sounding suffix took it upon himself to avenge the
martyrdom of a President. He gave his Jewishness as one of the reasons for
doing so." [LITVINOFF, B., p. 18] At Ruby's trial, Patrick Dean (the police
sergeant in charge of security where Oswald was killed) testified that
shortly after the shooting he talked to Ruby about what he had just done.
One of the reasons Ruby killed Oswald, the killer told him, was "because he
wanted the world to know that Jews do have guts." [BELLI, p. 167] When
Kennedy was shot, Ruby was in the advertising offices of the Dallas Morning
News, troubled by a full page advertisement in that morning's newspaper. As
Gerald Posner notes,
"The entire page was a black-bordered advertisement, headed in
large block letters, 'Welcome Mister Kennedy,' and the text accused
the President of being a Communist tool. It was signed by 'The
American Fact-Finding Committee, Bernard Weissman, Chairman.
Ruby was very disturbed that the News should have run such a
demeaning advertisement and was dismayed that it was signed by
someone with a Jewish name." [POSNER, 1993, p. 371]
Ruby mingled with a variety of underworld figures, and was involved in
gun smuggling to Cuba, facts that has fueled in later years a variety of
conspiracy theories about who really killed Kennedy. And for what reason.
Jim Marris notes that
"The smuggling of arms to Cuba was overseen by Norman 'Roughhouse'
Rothman, a burly associate of Miami's mob boss Santos Trafficante who
managed Trafficante's Sans Souci in Havana. At the same time Rothman
reportedly was splitting Havana slot machines with [Cuban dictator]
Batista's brother-in-law." [MARRIS, p. 391]
In his 1989 investigation of the Kennedy assassination, Marris also
devotes an entire chapter entitled, "Did Ruby and Oswald Know Each Other?,"
itemizing the testimony of those who claimed that the two were not strangers
to each other. [MARRIS, p. 402-414]
"There were many signs that Ruby wasn't just a harmless scoundrel,"
noted Newsweek in 1993, "and the investigation into his background was
remarkably -- almost willfully -- shallow. FBI agents interviewed hundreds
of his acquaintances, but they barely followed up on obvious leads about his
underworld friends and his trips to Cuba." [BECK, p. 94]
While Ruby was locked in prison and sentenced to death for the murder
of Oswald, the London Guardian notes that Ruby
"was raving by the end -- there was no bigger conspiracy theorist than
Jack Ruby. He became convinced America had begun a pogrom against
the Jews because of what he, or Oswald, or both of them, had done."
[BYGRAVE]
Binjamin Cram'er
One other thing the citizenry of the Jewnited States is never confronted
with through their media, is the fact that >40% of corporate crime in the US
is committed by yids. The same yids who make up less than 3% of the
population.
What does that tell you?????
"Avenger" <ave...@avengers.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cIN5i.330$9G3.314@trnddc07...
David Z
news:ye6dnQMfz6ojTcrb...@giganews.com...
> Thank you so much for posting this most interesting article.
>
> One other thing the citizenry of the Jewnited States is never
confronted
> with through their media, is the fact that >40% of corporate crime in
the US
> is committed by yids. The same yids who make up less than 3% of the
> population.
>
> What does that tell you?????
That you and Avenger must be the same moron because it's hard to believe
that 2 people that can be that stupid.
Binjamin Cram'er
"David Z" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:5bqkgrF...@mid.individual.net...
I'm afraid, for you Ikey, the figures don't lie.
>
>
David Z
> > That you and Avenger must be the same moron because it's hard to
believe
> > that 2 people that can be that stupid.
>
> I'm afraid, for you Ikey, the figures don't lie.
You don't deny that you're Avenger
QED
David Z
Only a pitiful loser like Avenger would stoop to posting under an alias
praising his own pathetic bullshit lies.
What a loser!
Avenger
You're a loser Zuckerschmuck. You can't argue with the facts as much as you
feebly try to. In fact, you can't even give a rational reply but have to
resort to typical jew nonsense and smear tactics which fool no one. That
other poster has been posting for years. But keep deluding yourself
putzhead.
>
>
David Z
>
> You can't argue with the facts...
The FACTS are that you are all about:
(a) telling lies,
(b) spreading lies, and
(c) perpetuating lies.
David Z
>
> In fact, you can't even give a rational reply but have to resort
> to typical jew nonsense and smear tactics which fool no one.
Haven't taken a good look in a mirror in quite a while, have you, moron?
Freedom Fighter
crime, is now the turf of the Russian mob. They are mostly involved in
identity theft and Internet scams. Are they Jewish, or is it "antisemitic"
to even dare to ask this question?
I hear alot about barring Latino immigrants, but somehow no one raised an
eyebrow when the Russians invaded!
Avenger
"Freedom Fighter" <lib...@once.net> wrote in message
news:o%16i.54421$p47....@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
Not only that. They actually encouraged them to come and gave them benefits
when they arrived. Did they do any background checks on these "immigrants"?
What about the Orthodox jew drug connexion?
>
>
Avenger
Buzz off putz.
>
>
>
Binjamin Cram'er
> "Avenger" <ave...@avengers.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:56_5i.3317$3B1.1307@trnddc08...
>>
>> You can't argue with the facts...
>
> The FACTS are that you are all about:
>
> (a) telling lies,
> (b) spreading lies, and
That's a yid thing
> (c) perpetuating lies.
That's a yid thing.
All genetic traits of yids, dopey.
>
>
>
David Z
>
> >> In fact, you can't even give a rational reply but have to resort
> >> to typical jew nonsense and smear tactics which fool no one.
> >
> > Haven't taken a good look in a mirror in quite a while, have you,
moron?
>
Are you the only one here that doesn't see that you continue to accuse
others of EXACTLY what you're doing? LOL!
You may as well have been looking in a mirror when you typed the above
statement. You are the most blatant case of denial I have ever seen.
In the mental health field, what you're doing is called "projection."
You need to see a mental health practitioner IMMEDIATELY.
You are a total fucking hypocrite. You continue to blame other for your
own regressions
Yeah, right. Avoid self-reflection and continue to demonize Jews, women
and whatever convenient group that you can
David Z
> >> Thank you so much for posting this most interesting article.
> >>
> >> One other thing the citizenry of the Jewnited States is never
> > confronted
> >> with through their media, is the fact that >40% of corporate crime
in
> > the US
> >> is committed by yids. The same yids who make up less than 3% of the
> >> population.
> >>
> >> What does that tell you?????
> >
> > That you and Avenger must be the same moron because it's hard to
believe
> > that 2 people that can be that stupid.
>
> I'm afraid, for you Ikey, the figures don't lie.
No denial the you're the same moron as Avenger.
QED again.
David Z
That only proves that you've been lying for years.
David Z
> >> You can't argue with the facts...
> >
> > The FACTS are that you are all about:
> >
> > (a) telling lies,
> That's a yid thing
>
> > (b) spreading lies, and
> That's a yid thing
>
> > (c) perpetuating lies.
> That's a yid thing.
Then you must be a yid, moron.
Binjamin Cram'er
> "Avenger" <ave...@avengers.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4S46i.143$WZ6.1@trnddc03...
>>
>> >> In fact, you can't even give a rational reply but have to resort
>> >> to typical jew nonsense and smear tactics which fool no one.
>> >
>> > Haven't taken a good look in a mirror in quite a while, have you,
> moron?
>>
>> Buzz off...
>
> Are you the only one here that doesn't see that you continue to accuse
> others of EXACTLY what you're doing? LOL!
>
> You may as well have been looking in a mirror when you typed the above
> statement. You are the most blatant case of denial I have ever seen.
>
> In the mental health field, what you're doing is called "projection."
Not in the mental health field at all. Get it right will ya.
>
> You need to see a mental health practitioner IMMEDIATELY.
>
>
> You are a total fucking hypocrite. You continue to blame other for your
> own regressions
>
> Yeah, right. Avoid self-reflection and continue to demonize Jews, women
> and whatever convenient group that you can
Are you a yid, DavidZ? You certainly qualify given the amount of whining
you carry on with.
>
>
Binjamin Cram'er
Really? Is this more evidence of yid "fact" under construction?
Doesn't alter the fact that >40% or corporate crime in the Jewnited States
Binjamin Cram'er
Nope. You've been had, dopey. And you're lying through your teeth. And
you're whining. You've gotta be a yid.
>
>
>
Binjamin Cram'er
Certainly not. That's probably the most cutting insult I've ever been fed.
>
>
David Z
There you go again. How much whining about Jews, women, etc. have YOU
done????
PLEASE seek professional help QUICKLY!
Binjamin Cram'er
No whining my end, laddie. That I point out the perfidy of you lot is hardly
whining. It's a noble cause.
David Z
Add schizophrenia to your list of mental maladies.
Tester
In January, 2006, Avenger had a Verizon.net IP in/near Newark, NJ.
In the same period, Cramer was posting from an netspace.net.au IP
in/near Brisbane, Queensland.
I found it necessary to go back a while because currently, Cramer is
using Giganews and they don't show the NNTP-Posting-Host in the
article headers.
Of course, there are all sorts of ways of changing your IP (have you
noticed how you get two copies of a pump and dump spam "from"
different continents within 20 minutes of each other?) and i'm sure
that there are names/passwords for Giganews and/or Giganews-customer
ISP's floating around but I doubt that Avenger = Cramer.
David Z
news:cojj53ldbcdv5map5...@entropy.org...
Then you're incredibly naive. How long have you been hanging around
Usenet? You'll find plenty of sickos just like him with the exact same
MO. They create aliases to make it look like someone actually agrees
with their bullshit. Here are a few more clues for you.
(1) Avenger used to post as a Jewish doctor (remember Dr. Moishe
Lippschitz?). He argued for months that he was, in fact, a Jewish
Doctor.
(2) This "Binjamin Cram'er" character just appeared about a month ago
and has posted 360 times in that month! Do these postings look like
someone who just discovered Usenet? If you think so, then I have a
bridge I want to sell you.
My advice is don't believe ANYTHING this asshole says. As I've said
many times before, he all about:
(a) telling lies,
(b) spreading lies, and
(c) perpetuating lies
Period. EVERYTHING he says is in support of one of the above goals.
If you haven't figured that out by now, you definitely ARE very naive.
fla...@verizon.net
On 26-May-2007, "Freedom Fighter" <lib...@once.net> wrote:
> South Brooklyn (particularly Brighton Beach), once home to Italian
> organized
> crime, is now the turf of the Russian mob. They are mostly involved in
> identity theft and Internet scams. Are they Jewish, or is it "antisemitic"
>
> to even dare to ask this question?
Why wouldn't you think it was anti-semitic to insist that a group of
people whose religion you don't know are Jewish just because they
are committing crimes?
>
> I hear alot about barring Latino immigrants, but somehow no one raised an
> eyebrow when the Russians invaded!
You'd have to prove that this is the case in the first place.
You haven't - you've only just said it's so.
Binjamin Cram'er
<fla...@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:wLs6i.30809$UD2.29526@trnddc05...
>
> On 26-May-2007, "Freedom Fighter" <lib...@once.net> wrote:
>
>> South Brooklyn (particularly Brighton Beach), once home to Italian
>> organized
>> crime, is now the turf of the Russian mob. They are mostly involved in
>> identity theft and Internet scams. Are they Jewish, or is it
>> "antisemitic"
>>
>> to even dare to ask this question?
>
> Why wouldn't you think it was anti-semitic to insist that a group of
> people whose religion you don't know are Jewish just because they
> are committing crimes?
I wish I knew what you were pathetically attempting to articulate here,
suzie. It's probably very, very funny.
Binjamin Cram'er
I keep telling you daveyboi, a yid I'm not.
It's you lot who suffer from these weird maladies.
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progressive neurologic disease characterized by increased head
circumference, decreasing muscle tone and motor activity, progressive loss
of visual responsiveness, and mental retardation. Death usually occurs by
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. Cystic fibrosis: Characteristic manifestations include recurrent lung
infections, malabsorption, malnutrition, and infertility (especially in
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functioning of the sensory and autonomic nervous systems. This causes
decreased sensitivity to pain, abnormal regulation of body temperature,
paroxysmal hypertension, and gastrointestinal abnormalities.
. Fanconi anemia group C: Fanconi anemia is characterized by deficient bone
development and bone marrow function. This can lead to pancytopenia, anemia,
leukemia, and malformations of the limbs, kidneys, and heart. The disorder
may be mild or severe.
. Gaucher disease: Gaucher disease is a lysosomal glycolipid storage
disorder caused by an enzymatic deficiency (acid beta galactosidase
deficiency). Individuals may have an enlarged liver and spleen,
thrombocytopenia, anemia, bone pain, bone lesions, and fractures. Life
expectancy depends on severity of the symptoms.
. Niemann-Pick disease types A and B: This lysosomal storage disorder is
characterized by diminished acid sphingomyelinase activity. Type A is
usually fatal within 2 to 3 years. These children fail to thrive, have an
enlarged liver and spleen, and exhibit progressive mental and physical
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with cirrhosis, portal hypertension, ascites, and pancytopenia), but little
to no neurologic involvement. They often survive into adolescence and
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. Tay-Sachs disease: Tay-Sachs is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder
caused by an enzymatic deficiency (hexosaminidase A). The classic infantile
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dementia, seizures, and blindness. Death usually occurs by age 4.
>
>
>
Binjamin Cram'er
Poor ole daveyboi's not the sharpest tool in the shed, I'm afraid.
Quite the dullard, in fact.
>
>
>
Binjamin Cram'er
> (b) spreading lies,
Nope. That's a yid thing.
(c) perpetuating lies
Nope. That's a yid thing.
You're not doing terribly well, daveyboi. Not at all well.
By the bye. I've been posting as any number of variants of Benjamin Cramer,
if you'd care to do a little checking. Been doing so for just over two
years.
You're not only stupid, you're dishonest. Not that any of that comes as a
surprise to me.
Cheerio, pathetic, paranoid, dishonest little twerp.
Avenger
>
> <fla...@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:wLs6i.30809$UD2.29526@trnddc05...
>>
>> On 26-May-2007, "Freedom Fighter" <lib...@once.net> wrote:
>>
>>> South Brooklyn (particularly Brighton Beach), once home to Italian
>>> organized
>>> crime, is now the turf of the Russian mob. They are mostly involved in
>>> identity theft and Internet scams. Are they Jewish, or is it
>>> "antisemitic"
>>>
>>> to even dare to ask this question?
>>
>> Why wouldn't you think it was anti-semitic to insist that a group of
>> people whose religion you don't know are Jewish just because they
>> are committing crimes?
But we know who they are and so do the police :o)
Tester
Australisa
(I can't tell his current location because he now uses Giganews which
doesn't show it.)
Avenger = Sick anisemite who now, and a year ago, was in or near
Newark, NJ
I can't tell your location because you use individual.net at the Free
University of Berlin and they don't show it.
When I post through Verizon you can see my location. When I post
through Teranews you can't.
Let's look at one of Avenger's headers.
Do you see the line NNTP-Posting-Host?
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L Alpert
>> Thank you so much for posting this most interesting article.
>>
>> One other thing the citizenry of the Jewnited States is never
>> confronted with through their media, is the fact that >40% of
>> corporate crime in the US is committed by yids. The same yids who
>> make up less than 3% of the population.
>>
>> What does that tell you?????
>
> That you and Avenger must be the same moron because it's hard to
> believe that 2 people that can be that stupid.
The sheep fornicator cramer fails to show data for his numbers. He just
spews it out without any thought to relevancy.
David Z
> I've been posting as any number of variants of Benjamin Cramer,
> if you'd care to do a little checking. Been doing so for just over two
> years.
Why do you find the need to keep changing your name?