Jewish ethics

[M.T.T.]

WALL STREET, JEWISH / ISRAELI ETHICS, AND THE WORLD OF FUND RAISING

Among the economic fields in which Jews today are especially visible is
investment banking -- "Wall Street," including interconnected networks of lawyers
and other legal and economic manipulators stretching deeply into Hollywood and the
mass media. Since the 1800s the "Old Crowd" of German-Jewish banking families (the
Seligmans, Lehmans, Goldmans, Sachs, Warburgs, Schiffs, Loebs, et al) had
predominated the field; a "New Crowd" of Jews has in recent decades taken their
place. After World War II, melodramatically note Judith Ehrlich and Barry Rehfeld,
"economic power in America and Wall Street was shifting ... Fresh faces came forward
as if answering a call ... They were the children and grandchildren of Italian,
Irish, Poles, and other Europeans who were not of Anglo-Saxon ancestry. But most of
all they were Jews." [EHRLICH, p. 12] This is not to suggest of course that the
seminal Jewish American investment firms are today inconsequential. Far from it. In
1999, for instance, Goldman, Sachs and Co. stretched across the world to become the
"single largest and controlling shareholder of South Korea's largest bank, Kookmin.
[BLOOMBERG NEWS, p. 11]

"In the world of high finance," observed Gerald Krefetz, "Jewish interest is
concerned with investment banking, a broad catchall for activities ranging from
tendering advice to underwriting securities. The heart of investment banking is
public offerings and private placements, the risking of capital -- sometimes ones'
own, but more often other peoples' -- to finance new companies, or expand old ones."
[KREFETZ, p. 54] The nature of Wall Street entrepreneurship might well be presumed
in the title of a 1986 volume by Ken Auletta: Greed and Glory on Wall Street: the
Fall of the House of Lehman, or Martin Meyer's Nightmare on Wall Street: Salomon
Brothers and the Corruption of the Marketplace (1993). Both Lehman and Solomon are
Jewish-founded firms.

A French Jewish commentator, Bernard Lazare, noted Jewish propensities in high
finance in the late 1800s:

"The man of the lower middle class, the small tradesman at whom
speculation has probably ruined has much clearer ideas of why he
is an anti-Semite. He knows that reckless speculation [by financiers],
with its attendant panics, has been his bane, and for him, the most
formidable jugglers of capital, the most dangerous speculators, are the
Jews; which, indeed, is very true." [LAZARE, B., p. 173]

Finance, investment banking, brokerage, and commodities are the speediest ways
(short of outright crime) to get rich in America; by 1988 the stock and bond market
and linked economic activities totaled 12 trillion dollars a year (six times the
value of the assets of Fortune's top 500 companies). "Where the money went," note
Ehrlich and Rehfeld, "and what happened to it were greatly influenced by Wall Street
power brokers." [EHRLICH, p. 19] Corporate mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers
have become an especially lucrative field. "By the 1980s, says Ehrlich and Rehfeld,
"along with [Gentile] T. Boone Pickens, and a few others ... the [Jewish] New Crowd
was at the very core of the mergers and acquisitions field." [EHRLICH, p. 15]....
[This circle of money men] bought luxurious homes, expensive art, high-priced
foreign cars, designer clothes and jewelry; they hosted or appeared at the right
parties." [EHRLICH, p. 16] ... The old WASP establishment had seen its wealth eroded
by changing tax laws and inflation ... arriviste Jews began to appear on the boards
of such time-honored WASP institutions as the Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Opera,
and the New York Public Library." [EHRLICH, p. 5] ... The New Crowd broke the
stranglehold of the Establishment WASP bankers and [older Jewish] Our Crowd
competitors ... and extended profit centers to newer financial activities such as
block trading, risk arbitrage, a wide range of retail securities products, financial
futures, listed trading of options, and junk bond financing that helped companies
expand and made almost every company vulnerable to a takeover, a leveraged buyout
that restructured corporate entities and raised critical debt levels." [EHRLICH, p.
394]

In the 1970s, "hostile turnovers," notes James Stewart, "bore an unsavory
taint. They generated bad feelings, especially toward those who represented the
attackers. This sometimes alienated other clients. Much of the WASP investment banks
and loan firms preferred to leave such work to the other firms, many of them
Jewish." [STEWART, p. 25] "Various techniques and instruments were used in the Wall
Street boom of the 1980s," says Norman Cantor, "but the most consequential -- and
lucrative was the floating 'junk' (low grade) bond to provide capital for
involuntary takeovers of one company by another ... Fiscal critic Benjamin Stein
[sees] the junk bond device as a huge fraudulent Ponzi scheme generating temporary
money pools that could be looted by ruthless investment bankers and corporate
executives and their overcompensated lawyers." [CANTOR, p. 402]

William Leach traces the influence that those in investment banking have had
in shaping America, both economically and in influencing the nation's values:

"The growth of investment banking and mass consumption industries
were (and still are) closely related developments ... Bankers assisted in
undermining the competitive ethos by directing business interest toward
concentration and easy economic fixers. They helped local monopolies
become major national 'players' almost instantaneously. Banker-inspired
megalomania reinforces an already clear pattern in the economy away from
'making goods' to 'making money.'" [LEACH, p. 275]

There is a long list of Jewish entrepreneurs on Wall Street who, as a group,
have been influential in literally changing the American economic system. Sanford I.
Weill, for instance, "amassed a brokerage empire and eventually became President of
American Express;" he was later "recognized as one of the most powerful Jewish
businessmen in the nation." [EHRLICH, p. 13] John Gutfreund rose to become the
chairman of Solomon, Inc., "one of the most powerful securities firms in the western
world." Felix Rohatyn "perhaps more than any other, was linked with the flood of
massive corporate combinations that reshaped American business for much of the past
three decades." [EHRLICH, p. 14] Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., valued at around $3.5
billion and with assets of $90 billion, is "one of the biggest closely held U.S.
money managers." It manages $55 billion "for institutions, such as pension funds,
endowments and foundations, and $35 billion for wealthy individuals." [BLOOMBERG
NEWS, INTL HERALD, p. 10]

Other influential Jewish Wall Street 'players' (financiers, lenders,
borrowers, advisers, lawyers, et al) in recent years have included Alan Greenberg,
Ira Harris, Bruce Wasserstein, Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, Peter Cohen, Joseph
Flom, Martin Lipton, Victor Posner ("a onetime Baltimore slumlord" [FORBES, p. 45]
who was indicted in 1982 for $1.25 million in income tax evasion and filing false
tax returns [BRENNER, p. 72]), [Posner is "the flamboyantly wealthy Miami Beach
financier [who has] been discredited as one of the most unprincipled and destructive
modern corporate raiders." [BIANCO, A., 1991, p. 31], Nelson Peltz, the Belzbergs,
and many others. Alan Greenberg is the head of Bear Stearns, Stephen Schwarzman
founded the Blackstone Group, a prominent investing firm. Well-known traditional
Jewish investment banking houses include Lehman Brothers, Lazard Freres, Goldman
Sachs, Salomon Brothers, Bache & Co., and Cantor/Fitzgerald. [SILBIGER, S., 2000, p.
78-79] "Jews took the lead in the '60s," notes Jewish business author Steven
Silbiger, "with new investment banking techniques that helped introduce a
conglomeration craze by using multipurpose holding companies ... The concentration
of Jewish-owned securities firms created well-paying employment opportunities at all
levels of the securities industry: securities analysts; portfolio managers; and
stock, bond and futures traders; brokers and deal-makers. Among the equity holders
of the Jewish investment banking and trading firms on Wall Street are hundreds of
Jewish millionaires. Upward mobility based on merit and high salaries has made
working on Wall Street a Jewish-friendly career choice ... Although exact figures
for the numbers of Jews are not available, they no doubt have a leading and
disproportionate role on Wall Street." [SILBIGER, S., 2000, p. 78-80]

In a book entitled, "The Money Machine," about the KKR company (Kohlberg,
Kravis, and Roberts), the author address three more Jewish Wall Street members:

"Here were three men who started a firm in 1976 with a few million
dollars and ten years later had control over what is believed to be the
largest corporate empire in the world ... Why did their names arouse
such intense emotions, ranging from envy, to awe, to fear?"
[BARTLETT, p. x]

By 1999, KKR controlled 23 companies. Among others, its stable included the
Amphenol Corporation, Boyd's Collection Inc., Idex Corporation, Kindercare Learning
Centers, Primedia Inc, and Gillette. It also made $5.9 billion profit in 12 years of
ownership of America's second largest food retailing chain. By the 1980s, the
company had "$45 billion in buying power," a sum "greater than the gross national
products of Pakistan or Greece." [BURROUGH/HELYAR, p. 130]

A Jewish investment financier, Jeff Beck, has been afforded an entire volume
about his life, entitled Rainmaker. "By the end of the 1980s," notes its author,
"[Beck] was living a life of deceit so absolute that in effect his true personality
had become turned inside out ...[BIANCO, A., 1991, p. 18] ... As money and
money-making were glorified in the Reagan years, Beck's pursuit of wealth and the
social status derived from it flowered into a full-fledged mania." [BIANO, A., 1991,
p. 12]

Another Jewish financier, Carl Icahn "rose from obscurity to become one of
the most feared corporate raiders in the country, Chairman of TWA, the largest
shareholder in Texaco and USX (formerly US Steel) and a billionaire ... [EHRLICH,
p. 15] ... [Icahn was] perhaps the most successful financial predator of them all."
[EHRLICH, p. 290] Icahn is particularly notable for his repeatedly ruthless
campaigns to take over unwilling companies, loot them for obscene profits, and --
successfully taking them over or not -- spitting them out again, leaving a wake of
relative ruin. In 1982, for instance, Icahn warred with the whole community of
Danville, Virginia, in his hostile bid to takeover a corporation called Dan River.
Townspeople unified to resist him, investing retirement money and other savings into
company stock. The company finally resisted the financial predator with a leveraged
buyout; Icahn, however, managed to strip the town's economic lifeblood of $8.5
million." In another much publicized financial effort, during early attempts
[eventually successful] to take over TWA Airlines the company president, then C. E.
Meyer, Jr., called Icahn "one of the greediest men on earth." [BROCK, p. 171] By
1998 he was attempting to take over Pan Am airlines.

In an attempt to ward off Icahn's efforts to take over the Phillip's petroleum
company, it had to go $4.5 billion deeper in debt, as well as cut hundreds of
millions of dollars of capital expenses, sell off $2 billion in assets, limit
investor dividends, and tighten budgets. 5,000 fewer employees were working for
Phillips by the time Icahn was through. [BRUCK, p. 191] Icahn walked away from
Phillips unsuccessful after a 10-week struggle to seize the company, but $52.5
million richer. "The business establishment took notice [of Icahn's recurrently
nasty dealings]," notes Connie Bruck, "One close associate of Icahn recalled that
Laurence Tisch [the Jewish] chairman of Loews and now of CBS, Inc., said to him,
'Tell Carl to cut this out. It's not good for the Jews.'" [BRUCK, p. 160]

And what of this sensitivity to issues of Jewish concern on Wall Street,
Jewish solidarity, and Jewish economic influence, particularly (but not only) with
regard to Israel? In 1974 Stephen Isaacs noted a premiere example:

"Gustave Levy [is the] managing partner of the important Goldman,
Sachs, and Company investment banking firm ... Many have regarded
Levy as the most powerful single individual on Wall Street, able to make
or break men and companies almost casually. He personally controls the
movement of billions of dollars. 'Gus is very conscious of being Jewish.
He's very conscious of the problems it can cause,' said Philip Greer, a
one-time stockbroker who had reported on Wall Street ... 'When you
talk about Jewish muscle, Gus will back off -- 'I don't make waves, [he
says], 'I've got it, and I can use it, and I know how to use it, and I do
use it, but I'm not going to talk to you about it because then that redneck
in Alabama is going to get very upset and I don't want him to know
about it.’.... In the Six Day War Gus was sending money over [to Israel]
like crazy. He would have financed the whole war all by himself. And he
made no bones about whether you were Jewish or not. 'You need
Goldman, Sachs. I need you now. If I don't get you now, you aren't
getting me later.' It was as simple as that. He could've raised it from
Schwartz or O'Reilly, it didn't make any difference to him, because
they're both after the money that Gus controls." [ISAACS, p. 263]

In 1995, Wall Street financier Michael Steinhardt (wizard of the moneymaking
device, the "hedge fund") closed his company, Steinhardt Partners, to concentrate
more deeply upon spreading the message of Jewish and Israeli identity so dear to
him. With a personal fortune of $400 million, he joined as a member of a consortium
that bought Israel's Bank Hapoalim and the Maritime Bank. One of his brainchildren,
called "Birthright," was by 1998 still in its developmental stages; it is a plan to
bring all young American Jews for trips to Israel, to renew their roots to Jewish
and Zionist identities. "As part of the birthright of every Jew on this planet, we
want to offer free trips to Israel in their formative years," says Steinhardt.
[RABINOVICH, p. 20] A building in Manhattan for renewal of Jewish identity was
purchased, and there has been sponsorship of the Jewish Campus Service Corps to pull
young Jews to Jewish programs at national campus Hillel centers.

By late 1999, "Birthright" was in progress, at a cost of $210 million. "Funded
by the Israeli government, in partnership with Jewish philanthropists and
communities abroad," college-age Jews in America competed in a lottery for
free-trips to Israel with the expressed purpose of being socialized into deeper
identification with the Jewish state. The goal is to transport 50,000 Jews a year to
connect to the tenets of Zionism. Not all Jews are happy with the program. The
chairman of the World Jewish Congress, for example, Isi Leibler, thought there were
many more worthy applications of the funds. Many Jews getting in on the program too,
he noted, were already "from affluent homes." [GREENBERG, J., 2000, p. A1]

"It can be said," suggested Gerald Krefetz in 1982, "that Jewish wealth is
generated from the financial side rather than the operational side. Many wealthy
Jews have climbed the corporate ladder through law, accounting, and investment
banking. Apparently, they are more at home massaging numbers than dealing with
technical or substantive problems of production ... [KREFETZ, p. 69].... If Jews
are drawn to the financial side, it is probably due to the fact that in the last
decade or two the financial tail wags the industrial dog." [KRAFETZ, p. 69]

"Greed knows no bounds," said the New York Director of the Securities and
Exchange Commission in 1986, "there's always someone who makes more than you do.
Investment banking is the new gold mine." [HOWE, p. 413] In the same year New York
psychiatrist Samuel Klagsbann, who had "a lot of lawyers handling mergers and
acquisitions" as patients, noted that for these people "business is God." [HOWE, p.
413]

"In the field of takeovers and mergers the sky is the limit," said prominent
Jewish financier Felix Rohatyn (later President Bill Clinton's ambassador to
France), "Not only in size, but the type of large corporation transactions. We have
gone beyond the norms of rational behavior. The tactics used in corporate takeovers,
both on offense and defense, create massive transactions that greatly benefit
lawyers, investment bankers, and arbitrageurs, but often result in weaker companies
and do not treat share holders equally and fairly ... In the long run we in the
investment banking business cannot benefit from something that is harmful to our
economic system." [EHRLICH, p. ]

In 1986, Dennis Levine was the first to be caught, a "dealmaker" at Drexel
Burnham Lambart, for his "insider trading [exploiting confidential company
information] which opened the doors to the greatest scandal in Wall Street history,
a scandal that "caused grave concern within the Jewish community." [EHRLICH, p. 17]
Not long after, Martin Siegel was also arrested. As the scandal opened up, it was
discovered that these wealthy criminals were overwhelmingly Jewish, including all
its central players. "What was particularly upsetting from a Jewish perspective,"
notes Ehrlich and Rehfeld, "was the fact that the [criminal] network began, in part,
when one member first introduced another to a third at a United Jewish Appeal
function." [EHRLICH, p. 340]

Connie Bruck, a Jewish journalist, notes that

"Privately, [lawyer Martin] Lipton expressed another concern, one shared
by many of the businessmen and lawyers who were part of the Jewish
establishment in New York, and by some of the Drexel contingent as
well. They feared that the common strain among these nouveau
entrepreneurs and their nouveau banks at Drexel -- an overwhelming
majority were Jews -- would unleash a backlash of virulent anti-Semitism
... As one Drexel client ... put it: 'It used to be that the Jews would go [to
WASP lenders] and they'd beg for money, and they'd be rejected while
the Gentile would come in and they'd all go to lunch and smoke cigars.
Now it's a shift of power to the Jews. Drexel is making these huge sums
of money and the banks comparatively little. The problem is, all
the entrepreneurs are Jews with the exception of [T. Boone] Pickens and
[Carl] Lindner -- and Lindner, a long time supporter of Israel, is the most
Jewish non-Jew I've ever known." [BRUCK, p. 205] (In 1999, Lindner
became controlling owner of the Cincinnati Reds professional baseball
team.)

"It is hard to grasp the magnitude and the scope of the crime that unfolded
beginning in the mid-1970s," wrote a Wall Street Journal editor Dennis Stewart, "in
the nation's market and financial institutions. It dwarfs any comparable financial
crime, from the Great Train Robbery to the stock-manipulation schemes that gave rise
to the nation's securities laws in the first place. The magnitude of the illegal
gains was so large as to be incomprehensible to most laymen." [STEWART, p. 115]
"[Michael] Milken [and] some of his Drexel colleagues and anointed players," says
Connie Bruck, "had made more money in a shorter period of time than any other
individuals had done in the history of this country." [BRUCK, p. 20]

"A variety of critics voiced their apprehension about what they saw as greed
that had gone out of control," says Ehrlich and Rehfeld, "... over the course of the
next three years, it was revealed that more than a dozen insiders -- many of them
members of Wall Street's most powerful firms -- as well as one of the hottest houses
on the Street, had amassed millions of dollars in illegal profits. The accused were
charged with violating securities laws that prohibited insider trading, that is,
they used material confidential information primarily about impending merger bids,
to profit from securities and transactions." [EHRLICH, p. 338]

"During the crime wave," says Stewart, "the ownership of entire corporations
changed hands, often forcibly, at a clip never before witnessed. Household names --
Carnation, Beatrice, General Foods, Diamond Shamrock -- vanished in takeovers that
spawned criminal activity and violations of securities laws. Others, companies like
Unocal and Union Carbide, survived but were heavily crippled. Thousands of workers
lost their jobs, companies loaded up with debt to pay for the deals, profits were
sacrificed to pay interest costs on the borrowings, and even so, many companies were
eventually forced into bankruptcy or restructurings. Bondholders and shareholders
lost millions more. Greed alone cannot account for such a toll. These are the costs
of greed coupled with market power -- power unrestrained by the normal checks and
balances of the free market place." [STEWART, p. 16]

A major wheeler-dealer in the 1980s scandals was Ivan Boesky, who was (only a
year before his 'public disgrace') also the Chairman of the New York area United
Jewish Appeal. He also was a member of the board of both Yehsiva University and the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, as well as a self-described "founder and
supporter" of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. "Boesky's Jewish
involvement," noted the Jewish Week, "resurfaced in the media at the time of his
sentencing in December, with revelations that he had been taking classes at the
Jewish Theological Seminary while awaiting sentencing and that leaders of some
organizations that benefited from his gifts had written character references to the
court, attesting to his generosity. The letters have sparked a new internecine
debate among Jewish activists. Some claimed that Jewish philanthropies were 'going
to bat' for a confessed felon because they had 'gotten their cut' from his
ill-gotten wealth." [GOLDBERG, JEWISH WEEK, 1-8-88, p. 41] "Many Jews," wrote
Ehrlich and Rehfeld, "worried that his trading abuses could cast a pall over the
entire Jewish community. Not only was he the most important figure in the scandal,
he was deeply involved in Jewish philanthropy." [EHRLICH, p. 341], including a $2.5
million donation to the Jewish Theological Seminary for a library to be named after
him and his wife.

This former head of the UJA was a particularly nefarious character. He had been
fined for violating New York Stock Exchange trade laws in the 1970s; [EHRLICH, p.
317], his 1985 book Merger Mania was written by a ghost writer, Jeffrey Madrick, and
largely patterned (without saying so) on an existing volume by Guy Wyser-Pratte.
[EHRLICH, p. 326] Boesky was the time of man who watched his employees throughout
his company by a video system in his office; [p. 324] he paid up to $5 apiece for
catered lunches so employees wouldn't have to leave their desks, [p. 36] and
"screamed at [employees] regularly." His oldest son, Billy, is reported to have
called his father "stark raving mad." [p. 40] Upon Boesky's installment as the UJA
campaign general chairman, he told his Jewish audience: "We must make an enormous
effort to encourage people's sense of responsibility -- to be sure that at the very
top we have the right attitudes about giving to the campaign. Attitude filters
down." [JEWISH WEEK, 6-29-84, p. 7]

The biggest fish caught in the Wall Street scandal, however, was super
billionaire Michael Milken, the "junk bond king," who was charged with racketeering
and mail and securities fraud. Milken single-handedly threatened to fulfill in real
life the most profound of traditional anti-Semitic nightmare fantasies. A former
Milken associate, notes Jewish journalist Connie Bruck, saw in Milken "the force of
... obsession, the megalomania, the conviction of a cause so just that the end
justifies the means and, finally, the conceptualization of the corporate vehicle as
a means of extending control nationwide -- and then worldwide." [BRUCK, p. 358]
"Many billions of dollars were at his command," notes Bruck, "capital, as Milken had
been saying and proving for a long time, was not a scarce resource. The only limits
to his power, it seemed, would be the limits of his fertile imagination." [BRUCK, p.
359] Milken, sometimes present at Simon Wiesenthal functions [BRUCK, p. 313], was
well-known for being able to assemble billions of dollars overnight to aid corporate
takeovers. At a yearly Milken-centered conference of the world's leading corporate
takeover specialists, affectionately called the Predator's Ball, a close Milken
associate, Donald Engel, arranged for high-priced prostitutes to service the
gathered "predators." [BRUCK, p. 15]

The goal of Milken and his predatory cronies, says Leon Black of Drexel Lambart
(the company that was ostensibly Milken's employer) was to finance "the robber
barons who would become the owners of major companies in the future." [BRUCK, p.
149] (Black's father, Eli, was the "rabbinically-trained corporate chieftain of
United Brands" who in 1975 jumped out a skyscraper window when it was revealed that
he was paying bribes to foreign governments). [BRUCK, p. 65] Among the players in
this scenario, Black particularly noted robber barons Carl Icahn, Henry Kravits (who
guided a $6.2 billion buyout of the Beatrice company), Samuel Heyman (chairman of
GAF who bid $6 billion for Union Carbide), Ronald Perelman, and a lone Gentile,
Rupert Murdoch (who was financed by Milken to take over Metromedia). [BRUCK, p. 245]
"By ... 1985...," says Connie Bruck, "Milken was moving his players across the M&A
[corporate mergers and acquisitions] field as though it were a chess board." [BRUCK,
p. 106]

Ron Perelman's rise is typical. Closely associated with Milken, his mentor's
junk bonds supported a variety of Perelman-inspired corporate invasions. Perelman
seized a resistant Revlon with a company one-eighth its size, Pantry Pride. (In 1991
he installed Jerry Levin to head it). He also took over a group of tottering Savings
and Loans for $315 million, suddenly controlling $7.1 billion in assets. In 1982
Perelman faced a lawsuit in his takeover of Technicolor. "Taken as a whole," says
Connie Bruck, "the complaint painted a picture of Perelman allegedly using deceit
and secret deals -- money here, position there, whatever it took -- to buy off the
necessary people and get the company." [DEALY, p. 308] In Perelman's hostile
takeover of Revlon, he tried to bribe the CEO of that company, Michel Bergerac.
[BRUCK, p. 194]

Another key Milken crony was Fred Carr (born Seymour Fred Cohen), head of the
Beverly Hills-based First Executive Corporation, described by Benjamin Stein as "the
largest insurance catastrophe in the history of the United States." [STEIN, B., p.
86] Others who made use of Milken junk bonds to build illusorily business empires
include Perry Mendel and Richard Grassgreen of the conglomerate Enstar (in
Montgomery, Alabama). Enstar eventually went bankrupt, becoming, notes Benjamin
Stein, "a source of rage, frustration, and loss for the people of Montgomery. They
were taken, and taken badly." [STEIN, B., p. 111] Mendel and Grassgreen were
convicted of fraud in 1991.

Milken has had a powerful hand in a wide range of other attempted corporate
takeovers. "He would cause frightened managements," says Bruck, "to focus on short
term gains and elaborate defenses rather than research and development that makes
for sustained [corporate] growth. It would cause the loss of jobs, as companies were
taken over and broken up." [BRUCK, p. 19] Milken aided, for further example, Eli
Jacobs' acquisition of the Memorex Corporation in 1986. And during the banking
Savings and Loans scandals of the 1980s, Columbia Savings had a branch office one
floor above Milken's own office; Columbia CEO Thomas Spiegel eventually purchased
about $4 billion of Milken's junk bonds. [DEALY, p. 307] In the early 1980s Saul
Steinberg, with Milken financing, had attempted a hostile takeover of the Disney
corporation. "Steinberg got calls from friends, Jews and non-Jews alike," notes Joe
Flower, "warning him, saying, as Steinberg later characterized it, 'Saul, it's going
to be you -- and with the name Saul Steinberg it's clear where you are and what you
are -- taking over another white Anglo-Saxon Protestant company. In all the little
towns of America they're going to say, 'That Jew took over Walt Disney. What would
Walt say?' But the warnings did not make Steinberg hesitate. 'They just made me
angry.'" [FLOWER, p. 112]

In 1969 Steinberg had tried to take over one of the most important banks in
America, the $9 billion Chemical Bank. "Those who ... combined against him," noted
Connie Bruck, "included not only the director and management of Chemical, but most
of the banking business, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and the legislature of New
York state, and members of the Federal Reserve Board and the Senate Banking and
Currency Committee." [BRUCK, p. 36]

Although Milken eventually agreed to accept a six felonies conviction and pay
$600 million (a sum larger than the yearly budget of the Securities Commission that
sought to prosecute him) [p. 16], the prosecution of fabulously wealthy Milken was
no easy matter. There was, for all intents and purposes, no money limit to his
personal defense. He and his firm, Drexel, planned to spend up to $650 million to
fight his conviction. [STEWART, p. 347] This included a massive $140 million public
relations campaign to change his public image from criminal to hero, an effort
"revolving around the theme that [he and his company] help[ed] to raise money [that]
benefited every American." [STEWART, p. 346] The public relations firm Milken hired
referred to him as a "national treasure." [STEWART, p. 377] In an effort to control
public discourse about himself, Milken even bought the rights to photographs of him
at all the news wire companies. [STEWART, p. 372] In February 1986 he even offered
to pay journalist Connie Bruck to not finish, and publish, a book she was working on
about him and his associates. [STEWART, p. 381] Expecting a significant Black
presence in the New York City jury that would try him, Milken hired an expert on
public relations in the Black community; the wealthy financier suddenly had an
interest in the underprivileged and paid for 1,700 ghetto kids to go to a Mets
baseball game. [STEWART, p. 400] Milken clients and sycophants even took out full
page ads in major papers, including the New York Times, proclaiming, "We Believe in
You." [STEWART, p. 418]

Milken ended up spending only a little over two years in prison, a small
sacrifice for the staggering amount of wealth he accumulated. He was sentenced,
notes Jewish scholar Norman Cantor, "by a Gentile woman judge who was married to a
prominent Jewish lawyer. Eventually she found grounds for sharply reducing his
sentence ... The skill of some Jewish billionaires in skirting the limits of the law
but somehow emerging unscathed, with the aid of high-priced Jewish attorneys, and a
compliant press, was remarkable." [CANTOR, p. 404] Milken court fines alone
eventually amounted to $1.1 billion. Still on probation, in November 1997 the New
York Times noted that "evidence of further illegal behavior since his release might
well cause the government to request further sanctions against Mr. Milken, including
even his return to prison." [TRUELL, D4] Since prison, Milken has been busy
collecting tens of millions of dollars, "counseling" the MCI Communications
Corporation, advising principal players in the Time-Warner-Turner Broadcasting mass
media merger, and working with financier Ronald Perelman. In 1996 the New York Times
noted Milken's presence in Israel in negotiations with a company called the
Eisenberg Group. "The Milken Group," said the Times, "might invest in Israel
Chemicals, of which the Israeli government owns 48.5%." [NYT, 8-14-96] The Eisenberg
Group at the fore of all this is headed by Shaul Eisenberg, the richest man in
Israel, who, "says Alan Vorspan, "[is] the shadowy Israeli billionaire who had been
brokering Israel defense technology to China for more than ten years ... 'Arms
merchant of the world' is not synonymous with a 'light unto the nations.'" [VORSPAN,
p. 31] "The arms business," note Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, "was and remains
central to [Eisenberg's] operation." [COCKBURN, p. 17] Other holdings include
everything from chemical factories in Korea to projects in Central America.
[COCKBURN, p. 12-13]

Dennis Stewart, a non-Jew and an editor at the Wall Street Journal, came under
fierce attack for "anti-Semitism" for his book about Milken and the Wall Street
scandals, the Den of Thieves (a title taken from this New Testament verse: "And
Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the
temple, and overthrew the table of the money changers, and the seats of them that
sold doves. And say unto them, it is written. My house shall be called the house of
prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." [MATHEW, 21:12-13])

A lawyer for Milken, a man we have run across before, Alan Dershowitz, tried to
use the now standard Jewish defense argument -- an accusation of anti-Semitism -- as
a tool to spare his criminal client jail time. Dershowitz published editorial pieces
in the Wall Street Journal attacking Stewart. He also paid $45,000 for a full page
ad in the New York Times the next day to outline his accusations, and half-page ads
in other papers, everywhere charging anti-Semitism. In a letter to the New York
Times Book Review section Dershowitz attacked both Stewart and the Review's reviewer
of Den of Thieves, Michael Thomas, (a "money" columnist for the New York Observer)
for alleged anti-Semitism. "Both," Dershowitz wrote, "seem preoccupied by Jews."

In defense, Thomas (whose novel Hanover Place and its free exploration of
Jewish corruption on Wall Street has also been called anti-Semitic) said:

"If I point out that 9 out of 10 people involved in street crime are Blacks,
that's an interesting sociological observation. If I point out that 9 out of
10 people involved in securities indictments are Jewish, that is an anti-
Semitic slur. I cannot sort the difference." [HOYT]

When business journalist Connie Bruck published The Predator's Ball, a volume
about Milken and the junk bond world, a Drexel lawyer (where Milken worked) accused
her of anti-Semitism. "I remember a lawyer at Chas Gordeon and Reindel screaming at
me and accusing me of anti-Semitism," said Bruck later, "And I'm Jewish, so that
made it more unpleasant. It all comes from Milken. Milken told friends of his, who
repeated it to me, that he believed the government's investigation was fueled by
anti-Semitism." [HOYT]

"If Stewart is guilty of anything," wrote Allen Sloan of Newsday, "it's
breaking the Cohen Rule when dealing with ethnic groups. It's only safe to identify
a person ethnically or racially in a positive context ... Down deep we all
understand the rules. But these rules shackle journalists and muffle the truth. They
amount to censorship ... By blasting Stewart (a full page ad, for crying out loud!)
for doing nothing more than stating the truth, Dershowitz has attempted to discredit
his reporting by besmirching his character -- and, in the process, making Milken
seem a victim of religious bigotry. Dershowitz's accusations, beside the point and
below the belt, is a form of scapegoatism that comes perilously close to what it
purportedly condemns." [HOYT]

[M.T.T.]

Across the ocean, England had its own very publicized Jewish financier scandal at
about the same time -- sometimes known as the "Guinness Four" affair. It was, noted
the (London) Independent, "the most notorious insider dealing fraud of the
Eighties," a plot to boost the share value of the Guinness corporation. [BRAID, p.
1] On trial were Gerald Ronson (head of Heron International), Ernest Saunders, Jack
Lyons, and Anthony Parnes. They were all convicted, but each received reduced,
short-term jail sentences. "All four defendants," noted the Times (of London), "...
are Jews ... Any attempt to incite anti-Semitism because of Jewish financial
misbehavior has to be deplored and opposed. But any attempt to minimize or excuse
the offenses is also unacceptable ... In folk prejudice the 'Jewish banker' is an
unkind cliché, but herein lies the problem. He exists ... Quiet voices are to be
heard that such [beat the system] attitudes are more common than ought to be any
Jewish financier. And recognizing that such a malady exists is the first condition
for curing it." [LONGLEY, 9-1-90]

Only a few years earlier, in the 1980s too, was the case of yet another
prominent Jewish American entrepreneur, Marc Rich (father's name originally Reich).
"In the shadowy, secret world of commodities trading," noted John Ingham and Lynne
Feldman, "Marc Rich had no peer ... Appellations for Marc Rich have included
'ruthless tycoon,' 'vengeful businessman,' and 'scheming marketeer.' Often called
the most corrupt man in this fraternity of free booting capitalists, Rich was also
among the most secretive." [INGHAM/FELDMAN, p. 550] Rich even managed to profit off
millions of barrels of oil from Iran during the Iranian hostage crisis. In 1983, he
and associate, Pinky Green, fled to Switzerland to avoid a warrant out for their
arrest. (Rich has deep ties to Israel and has been involved over the years in
"negotiating the return of captured Israeli soldiers and Jewish dissidents. In a
controversial move, President Bill Clinton pardoned Rich's crimes as he left the
White House in 2001. "Several Israeli officials wrote Clinton in support of [Rich's]
pardon.") [MSNBC, 2-2-2001]

Perhaps Rich had occasion in Europe to run into fellow white collar criminal
Gerald Goldwell. Goldwell, notes a volume entitled Organized Crime in Europe,
epitomized those involved in "extensive international fraud ... making use of
several shell companies and of insolvent firms ... The leader of one of the largest
such organizations was Gerald Goldwell, a well-known American fraudster, whose
career of 15 years in business crime made him one of the most experienced crime
entrepreneurs in his field." [DUYNE, p. 12] Based in Amsterdam, Goldwell's criminal
scope included Bermuda, Dutch Antilles, the Bahamas, Canada, Luxemburg, Germany and
Panama.

In 1980, in Switzerland, a Jewish immigrant from Bulgaria, Eli Pinkas, and his
wife committed suicide as their swindles began collapsing down upon him. After his
death, noted the Washington Post, "it was revealed that the quiet executive was, in
fact, a master swindler who created an elaborate portfolio of false documents and
records to steal more than $140 million from an international array of banks and
industries." The Pinkas scam was noted as the "biggest private financial scandal in
recent Swiss history." [BERRY, J., F., 7-20-80,p. A1]

At about the same time in Panama, in an unrelated criminal enterprise, Jewish
entrepreneur Isaac Zafrani "in two years time, had become the most powerful video
pirate in the world. By selling fraudulent copies of first-run films, Zafrani, more
than any other single operation world-wide, posed the greatest threat to legitimate
video and theatrical interests." By 1984, his profits in the bootleg business were
about $20 million. [FRANKLIN, P., p. 113]

In fact, the whole Jewish state of Israel is an Isaac Zafrani. As Israel's
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies noted in March 2000:

"Israel is known the world over for intellectual properties rights
piracy. Indeed, it is likely that Israel will soon be downgraded from
the second worst rating of violating countries to the worst by the
International Property Alliance (IIPA), the international organization
fighting software and intellectual property crimes of piracy."
[INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STRATEGIC..., 2000]

"In 1998," notes the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, "an American delegation visited
Israel to investigate the issue and found Israel to be 'an international center for
pirate distribution' -- estimating that the extent of the forgery industry reached
tens, maybe hundreds, of millions of dollars. The U. S. delegation threatened to
impose sanctions against Israel by increasing duty tax for Israeli imports to the
United States. The delegation also noted that the Israeli forgery industry has grown
in recent years because of the infiltration of organized crime." [ALON, G., 6-22-01]

The 1980s also highlighted young Jewish swindler Barry Minkow of Reseda,
California, whose misdeeds entitled his story to be immortalized in an entire
volume, subtitled The Kid Who Swindled Wall Street. Minkow was sentenced to prison.
"Barry," notes Daniel Akst, "succeeded in creating not a corporation, but the
hologram of one." His ZZZZ Best firm, founded on carpet-cleaning, eventually was
worth $200 million. As a result of Minkow's scams, "widows and orphans lost their
money. Hard working folks lost their jobs, or had their careers ruined, their lives
stained, their hopes turned to ash." The author who recounts Minkow's business
career calls him a psychopath, "someone who can act without regard to conscience,
victimizing people again and again without remorse." [AKST, D., p. 5, 6, 270] Minkow
associates included Maurice Rind, "a stock swindler before financial fraud was
fashionable." [AKST, D., p. vii]

In a 1994 case, Martin Wolfe of Baton Raton, Florida, was the "principal
figure" in a nationwide investment scam involving pizza vending machines, defrauding
some investors of their life savings for nonexistent machines. "You have to plant
the seed," Wolfe once told a business audience, "so the seed grows into an oak, and
the oak grows into greed, which takes over the whole body. Greed is good."
[IWANOWSKI, J., 3-20-94, p. E1] In 1996 investors in California's Pioneer Mortgage
firm lost $250 million. As the San Diego Union Tribune observed, "Many got in
because Pioneer's Chief Executive -- Gary Naiman -- was very active in his synagogue
and activities related to Israel." [BAUDER, D., 1-19-96, p. C2]

In Arizona, in 1997, Ben Friedman "pleaded guilty to 3 of 73 felony charges of
securities and tax frauds ... [He] bilked his investors out of more than $2.5
million and the state of Arizona out of more than $5 million in unpaid taxes." After
a five year investigation into Friedman's wheelings and dealings, the Arizona State
Department of Revenue concluded that "This is the largest tax prosecution involving
personal income taxes the department has ever undertaken. All the Arizona personal
income tax cases prosecuted to date would not equal what Mr. Friedman evaded."
[SILVERMAN, A., 5-14-98]

Beginning in 1977, the FBI launched a secret investigation into the world of
white-collar crime. Known as "Abscam," the investigation eventually led to a number
of bribe-taking Congressmen. The central player recruited by the FBI sting operation
to penetrate the world of white-collar fraud was an expert in the field, life-long
swindler Mel Weinberg, "who had worked North America and five other continents,
fleecing public officials, movie stars, dictators, generals, mobsters, political
terrorists, and ordinary businessmen with democratic impartiality." [GREENE, 1981,
p. 2] Weinberg was set up as a representative for a fake wealthy Arabian oil sheik,
Abdul, and his networking for the FBI in the white collar underworld netted people
from a number of backgrounds. In the Jewish community, these included Herman Weiss,
Joe Meltzer, William Rosenberg ("a picture version of the affluent swindler")
[GREENE, 1981, p. 9], Ben Cohen (a Miami lawyer "who once represented the Florida
gambling syndicate,") [GREENE, 1981, p. 129], Marvin Rappaport ("who was anxious to
supply Abdul with sex films"), [GREENE, 1981, p. 129], and Greg Katz ("who had
become a millionaire through a series of corrupt deals with New Jersey Democratic
officials spanning thirty years.") [GREENE, p. 162]

In Argentina and other Latin American countries in the late 1970s, notes Jerome
Barromi, there were "a series of financial and political scandals involving
prominent Jews." Among those charged was Mexican-based "powerful financier" David
Gravier; family members him were also arrested and "accused of having laundered and
recycled money from the Montoneros, acquired by bank robberies and kidnapping
wealthy businessmen." (At least one prominent member in the revolutionary Montoneros
organization, wanted by the government, was given refuge, on the basis of his Jewish
credentials, in Israel). [SACHER, H., 1985, p. 299] "With several other Jewish
investors, most of them Mexican, Gravier used his family bank to purchase
controlling shares of the American Bank and Trust, a major New York financial
institution. He then skimmed $50 million out of ABT, precipitating its collapse and
the liquidation of $180 million of its deposits." Among the depositors were generals
in Argentina's military. [SACHAR, H., 1985, p. 304] In 1977, "a new scandal erupted,
the bankruptcy of the Jewish-owned (the Argentine Madanes family) aluminum factory,
ALUAR." [BARROMI, p. 31] "Then came the [Jose Ber] Gelbar scandal," notes Jewish
scholar Howard Sachar, "involving the first Jew to serve in a Peruvian cabinet.
"Accused of graft in accumulating the fortune required for purchasing his vast
investment [in ALUAR]," he fled to the United States. [SACHAR, H., 1985, p. 304]

In 2001, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency covered a panel discussion about the
Jewish situation in Argentina, noting:

"According to Argentine Jewish expatriates in the audience, the Jewish
leadership
in the country is entrenched, incompetent and corrupt. They also claimed that
the two Jewish-run banks were linked closely to a corrupt government and played
fast and loose with the community's money. When the banks failed, some $26
million in communal assets were lost overnight. 'My brother can get over losing
his money, but he cannot get over the fact that Jews betrayed other Jews,
[Rabbi
Alfredo] Borodowski said." [JORDAN, M., 6-28-01]

In Australia, noted the 1994 American Jewish Yearbook, there were arrest
warrants out for

"Abe Goldberg and a business associate, Katy Rochelle Boskowitz ...
over the multimillion dollar collapse in 1990 of the Linter textile and
investment group and alleged fraudulent borrowing and misconduct.
Boskowitz was arrested, but Goldberg remained in his native Poland ...
which has no extradition treaty with Poland. Robyn Greenberg,
convicted of fraud following the demise of a women's investment
and finance group in western Australia, was sentenced to 17 years in
prison. Some saw the harsh sentence as inspired by anti-Semitism.
Others by sexism." [SINGER/SELDIN, 1994, p. 373]

In the wake of the much-publicized Wall Street scandals, in 1987 the New York
Jewish Week devoted a seven page "special report" entitled "Are We Facing a Crisis
in Jewish Ethics?" to the theme of recurrent Jewish corruption. The newspaper noted
that

"Four years ago, Jewish bankers in the Jewish state conspired in what
has become known as Israel's bank shares scandal. Of the four banks,
one was owned by Histradut [Israel's labor federation], one by the
Jewish Agency, and one by Mizrachi. Last year, a New York yeshiva
that was the seat for a grand rabbi was involved in a money-laundering
scheme for area businesses. Some of them were reported to be illegal.
Two officials of the school were indicted and convicted. This year a
prominent Wall Street figure and a lay leader of the New York Jewish
community pleaded guilty to insider trading violations on what is said
to be a massive scale. Several others have since been indicted -- and
most so far are Jewish. And then there are the various corruption
scandals currently plaguing New York: public officials betraying the
public trust by lining their own pockets -- and, or so it would seem,
almost all of them Jewish." [JEWISH WEEK, 5-15-87, p. 25]

Jewish names swirling in New York City scandals in the late 1980s included Alex
Liberman, Stanley Friedman, Marvin Kaplan, Michael Lazar, Lester Shafran, Shelley
Chevlowe, Victor Botnick, Jay Turoff, Melvin Lebetkin, Geoffrey Lindenauer, Charles
Berg, Bernard Sandow (head of New York's Parking Violations Bureau) and Donald Manes
(Queens Borough president), among others. [NEWFIELD/BARRETT, 1988; THE RECORD,
3-18-88, p. C22] Friedman (head of the Bronx Democratic Party), Lazar (City
Transportation Administrator) and Shafran (Director of the City Parking Bureau) were
convicted of racketeering (involving bribes, kickbacks, et al). Kaplan, who had a
$22 million contract with New York City's parking bureau, was convicted of perjury.
[LUBISCH, A., p. B3]

In 1998, the tide had not abated: the lament in the Canadian Jewish News was
still the same: "In recent years a wave of financial scandals have shaken the Jewish
community. How to conduct one's business ethnically is emerging as a central concern
among rabbis and responsible community leaders." [CAN JEW NEWS, Business Ethics] In
1999, the same Jewish newspaper followed up with another article about this
insistent subject, saying:

"Unfortunately, all too often (once is too often) we hear about ritually
observant Jews involved in white collar crimes: tax evasion, money
laundering, embezzlement and fraud. Perhaps even worse is the attitude
that one so often hears in casual conversation: 'I am only an employee,
so I can't write off personal expenses,' or 'Of course I pay my contractor
in cash,' thereby helping him evade his tax responsibility and thus stealing
from the honest taxpayer ... For some, the phenomenon is culturally
based ... [Because of historical discriminations against Jews] Jews had
to resort to cheating. This attitude was then carried over to our
democracies ... It does not require a very close examination of our
general business practices to realize that a serious problem exists...
We must continue to work until people stop and say: 'What a wonderful
Torah the Jewish people have. Look at the honesty and integrity of
of those who keep it." [KELMAN, J., 10-14-99, p. 9]

In 2001, 51 people were indicted for fraud worth millions of dollars in a
rigging of McDonald's promotional games. "The scheme [involved] friends and
close-knit family members, including a husband and wife." Jerome P. Jacobson, the
scam ringleader and director of security for Simon Marketing Inc. (the firm
contracted by McDonald's to run its promotional games: i.e., Monopoly and Who Wants
to Be a Millionaire?), "embezzled more than $20 million worth of winning McDonald's
game pieces from his employer." Names of those indicted are hard to come by, but
those listed with Jacobson by the Miami Herald were Bernard Weintraub and Adam
Zucker. (Unindicted CEO of McDonalds? Jack Greenberg). Attorney General John
Ashcroft announced that "the complaint alleges that Jacobson provided the winning
game pieces to his friends and associates who acted as recruiters. These recruiters
then solicited others who falsely and fraudulently represented that they were the
legitmiate winners of the McDonald's games." [MIAMI HERALD, 12-9-01] [CNN, 8-22-01]

In the Jewish homeland, in 1994, Agence France Presse noted that
"investigations, scandals, and trials involving securities dealers and the country's
biggest banks have shaken Israel's financial markets as they've never been shaken
before." [SCHATTNER] This included the arrests of Vladimir Saar and Arie Shafir for
securities crimes, as well as the jailing of Amos Weiss, "one of Israel's leading
securities dealers." [SCHATTNER] In 2001, the Isaeli newspaper Haaretz noted that

Three years later, in 1997, not much had changed in the name of "Jewish
ethics" in the Jewish homeland. The Cleveland Jewish News began an article by
stating that "Israel seems to be going through a golden age of corruption and
criminality," and then listed those in the so-called "Bar-On affair," including
Knesset member Arye Deri's trial for accepting bribes; building contractor David
Appel's "cheating poor immigrants out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in
government compensation"; the investigation into the Prime Minister's chief aide
Avigdor Lieberman's falsification of documents; Dror Hoter Isha'i, head of the
Israel Bar Association, and his trial for income tax evasion; and an investigation
of Jerusalem mayor Ehud Olmert for falsification of election campaign documents.
"But that's just in the Bar-On affair," notes the News, "the Israeli government is
chockfull of other senior figures who have been accused of corruption and/or
malfeasance." [DERFNER, Corruption, p. 8] These include police investigations of
Shas Knesset member Rafael Pinchasi, Internal Security Minister Avigdor Kahalani,
former Justice Minister Ya'acov Ne'eman, former Shas Knesset member Yair Levy, Labor
Knesset member Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, and National Religious Party member Avner
Shaki. "As for the mayors who have gone on trial for corruption and other sorts of
crimes," notes the News, "the list is far too long to mention." [DERFNER, p. 8]

In 1994 the chairman of the Jewish Agency, Simcha Dinitz, had earlier joined
the crowd when he was charged with fraudulent use of agency credit cards and other
indiscretions, [HOFFMAN, D, p. A12] and in 1996 the Jewish National Fund weathered
"a scandal over alleged financial mismanagement." [FORWARD, 3-21-97, p. 4] In 1997,
an Israeli millionaire, Nahum Manbar, was convicted of treason for selling material
to Iran that has value in the manufacture of poison gas. A member of Manbar's legal
defense team was even found to have had simultaneous affairs with the judge on the
case, the Israeli prime minister's media advisor, and a Shin Bet secret police
officer. [BORGER, p. 16] That same year, Dudu Topaz, a major Israeli television
personality, was exposed for the fraudulent system of his game show.

In 1999, Ofer Nimrodi, chairman of one of the largest newspapers in Israel,
Ma'ariv, went to prison for four months "for electronically eavesdropping on his two
competitors as well as on other media figures." A former employee, Rafi Pridan, was
also reported "to have tapes of his old boss planning to murder the publishers of
two rival newspapers, plus a private eye who once help put Nimrodi -- and Pridan --
in jail for wiretapping." [MAKOVSKY, p. 63]

Recent Israeli military-related scandals include a controversial over an early
release date from jail for an air force general, Rami Dotan, who was imprisoned for
embezzling $12 million, and Yehuda Gil, a senior Mossad [Israeli CIA] official, who
was finally caught inventing -- continually for ten years -- information from an
entirely fabricated spy in Syria. Enjoying the status of being a spy legend in
Israel, Gil's total fictions nearly brought Israel to war with its Arab neighbor.
[DAVIS, D, p. 10]

In 1999, the Associated Press reported that "several former officials of
Israel's biggest bus company are suspected of accepting millions of dollars in
bribes" [AP, Israel's] and in another story that "Israeli police have recommended
that outgoing Justice Minister Tsahi Hanegbi be charged with corruption." [AP,
Police] That same year too, "Israeli police arrested a local official of the
ultra-Orthodox Shas party [Yehuda Kehati] -- a key ally of Prime Minister Benyamin
Netanyahu -- Saturday over allegations of fraud in connection with Monday's
elections for parliament and prime ministership ... Fraud allegations are nothing
new in Israeli politics." [AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Ultra] A little while later came
losing Prime Minister Netanyahu's turn: "Two months after bowing out of public life,
Benyamin Netanyahu was back in the spotlight at the center of a police probe by the
national fraud squad. Israel's former first couple are suspected of corruption,
abuse of trust, attempting to suborn witnesses, and hindering the investigation,
which centers on 100,000 dollars of renovations and other work at two Jerusalem
homes." [WEGMAN] In 2001, the Washington Post noted that, with 1994 changes in
Israeli election laws, "as a result many Israeli politicians resorted to a wide
range of illegal and semi-legal ways to raise money, including setting up nonprofit
organizations, whose records are shielded from public inquiry." [DOBBS, M., 2-21-01]
That same year, after a building collapsed in Jerusalem killing 23 people, the
Israeli newspaper Haaretz noted that

"Construction regulation in Jerusalem has been under a cloud since November
1999, when a huge corruption scandal exploded under the city's construction
regulation department. After a six month undercover operation, Jerusalem
poolice uncovered a ring of municipality officials who systematically
accepted hundreds of thousands of shekels in bribes from architects
and contractors." [AVRAHAMI, I., 5-27-01]

In 1999, in examining Israeli Likud Party fundraising, the Jewish Week noted
that "almost $300,000 appears to have vanished somewhere between the United States
and its Israeli charitable destination. And at least under $160,000 -- donated by
right-wing philanthropist Dr. Irving Moskowitz to a fund-raiser linked to Likud --
was never reported to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, as required by law."
[COHLER-ESSES, L., 2-19-99, p. 1] In 2001, "[Israeli] Histradut Teachers Union head
Avraham Ben-Shabbat and his deputy Uri Groman, were placed under 14 days' house
arrest by Tel Aviv District Court ... after both admitted to fraudulently obtaining
academic degrees, then using them to receive higher pay." [SOMMER, A., 12-11-01]

And let us not forget the swindles befalling some of the immigrants to Israel
from the former Soviet Union. In 1996, a class action suit was filed against Va'ad
(the Ukrainian Jewish immigration umbrella organization), an immigration activist
named Yosef Zisels, the Jewish Agency, and the Liason Bureau of the Israeli
government. "According to the charges," notes the Jerusalem Post, "the immigrants
gave money from their savings and the sale of their property to Zisels to transfer
to Israel at the advice of emissaries working for the agency and bureau. However,
they claim they were not paid the sums half a year later, as had been stipulated in
the contract with the Va'ad." [TSUR, p. 6] Then came the 1999 investigations of
"lawyers who reportedly cheated thousands of elderly Israelis out of more than half
a billion dollars by offering to help them obtain German pensions. [i.e.,
Holocaust-era reparations]" [BARSHI]

In November of 1999 the Montreal Gazette noted that

"It was scandal, and lots of it, that truly occupies the country's [Israel's]
attention. There was a scandal of lust, scandal of greed, scandal
of corruption. There was a scandal involving the national soccer
team for losing a key match following pregame visits to a house
of ill repute. There was a scandal involving former prime minister
Benyamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sarah, accused of accepting
bribes and stealing valuable state gifts. And there was yeshiva
scandal aplenty. So much muck was being raked that the
newspaper Yediot Ahronot even ran a full-page scandal guide
on Friday, with boxes for every major affair, its suspects, its
allegations and the status of its investigation." [SONTAG, D.,
11-28-99, p. 17]

In 2000, nothing had changed. The Jewish Week headlined an article "Israel
Sinking in Scandal Swamp: 'Light Unto Nations' Seen Losing Moral Bearing Amid
Corruption, Fraud Probes." New scandals included those surrounding Israel's
president, Ezer Weizman, who had taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in a secret
fund from French Jewish millionaire Edouard Sarousi, and Prime Minister Ehud Barak
"who was questioned by state Comptroller Eliezer Goldberg last week about
allegations that fictitious associations illegally pumped foreign contributions into
his 1999 election campaign." [AIN, S., 1-28-2000, p. 1]

Scandals in Israel are an old theme. Looking back to the 1970s, notes Richard
Rubenstein, "there was a serious loss of public confidence in the Labor government
[the then-empowered political party] as a result of revelations of economic
corruption and greed among some government leaders, heads of state-owned banks,
corporations, and the Histradut labor federation." [RUBENSTEIN, R., p. 229] And as
World Zionist Organization president Nahum Goldmann noted about Israel's first prime
minister, David Ben Gurion:

"A promise to him was quite worthless. He did not hesitate to promise
one thing and do the opposite. He was absolutely unscrupulous. He
never pursued any objective other than realizing the Zionist ideal
and satiating his immense ambition." [GOLDMANN, N., 1978, p. 94]

In 2001, a London Guardian reporter noted with outrage that Israel has blatantly
"cheated and lied and abused the trust" it had in trade agreements with European
nations. "No sooner had the ink dried on [Israeli minister] Shimon Peres's signature
[to a Euro-Israeli trade pact]," notes Brian Whitaker,

"than Israel began to cheat. To imagine that this was due to a few bent
officials
in the customs department would be a mistake: cheating was built into the
system and it was carried out with the blessing of the Israeli government ...
In 1997, as a result of complaints, the European commission sent a delegation
to Israel to find out why Brazilian orange juice arriving in Europe had been
certified as Israeli in order to qualify for preferential rates. The problem,
the
delegation concluded, went way beyond orange juice: Israeli customs officials
simply could not be trusted. The problem was so serious, their report said,
that 'the validity of ALL preferential certificates issued by Israel, for ALL
products,' was in doubt." [WHITAKER, B., 4-3-01]

An Israeli journalist noted the moral tenor of its citizens in 2001, a world
view intrinsic to Jewish identity throughout the history of the Jewish diaspora and
its traditional circumvention of surrounding Gentile law:

"The Israeli temperament does not accept rules of behavior and rejects
natural obedience to the law. The average Israeli is afraid to feel like
a sucker, so scorns the rules and regulations and regards the law as
an area of ever-expandable space in which to maneuver, outwit, bypass,
and bribe, if necessary, in order to achieve more." [BENZIMAN, U.,
5-27-01]

This theme was repeated again a week later by a Jewish ethnic magazine, The
Forward, which wondered if Israel's national "personality trait" of subversion of
civil law had roots in Jewish ethics in earlier times in other countries:

"[There is] universal awareness that something is definitely rotten in the
state
of Isael. This is, after all, a country in which bending the rules is said to
be a
national pasttime, cutting corners a way of life and cheating the authorities
the proof of merit ... Sticklers for the law are ridiculed and abused, where
anyone who works by the book is branded a sap, a 'freier,' the worst insult
in modern Israeli lexicon ... Many people believe Israeli laxity, which
borders
on anarchy, is a national personality trait that cannot be eradicated by laws
alone. Some trace the trait all the way back to the historical Jewish
Diaspora,
where Jews often found solace in bending the rules imposed by the often
anti-Semitic authorities." [SHALEV, C., 6-1-01]

The same year, Michael Finkel had this to say, about another criminal subject,
in the New York Times:

"Moshe lives in Israel, which happens to be one of the more active nations in
the international organ-trafficking market. The market, which is completely
illegal, is
so complex and well organized that a single transaction often crosses three
continents ... Yet in Israel and a handful of other nations, including India,
Turkey,
China, Russia and Iraq, organ sales are conducted with only a scant nod toward

secrecy. In Israel, there is even tacit government acceptance of the practice
-- the
national health-insurance program covers part, and sometimes all, of the cost
of
brokered transplants. Insurance companies are happy to pay, since the cost of
kidney surgery, even in the relatively short run, is less than the cost of
dialysis.
According to the coordinator of kidney transplantation at Hadassah University
Hospital in Jerusalem, 60 of the 244 patients currently receiving
post-transplant
care purchased their new kidney from a stranger -- just short of 25 percent of
the|
patients at one of Israel's largest medical centers participating in the organ
business. Relatively few transplant operations, illegal or legal, take place
in Israel. Every
proposed kidney transplant in the country between two unrelated people is
carefully screened for evidence of impropriety by a national committee.
Therefore, almost
all of these illegal surgeries are performed elsewhere, in nations where the
laws are
easier to duck, including the United States. Israel also does not contribute
much
to the supply side of the equation. Organ donation is extremely low; an
estimated
3 percent of Israelis have signed donor cards .... Paying for an organ has
become
so routine in Israel that there have been instances in which a patient has
elected not
to accept the offer of a kidney donation from a well-matched relative. 'Why
risk
harm to a family member?' one patient told me. Instead, these patients have
decided
that purchasing a kidney from someone they've never met -- in almost all cases

someone who is impoverished and living in a foreign land -- is a far more
palatable option ... A few Americans do go abroad for transplants. A man named
Jim
Cohan, who lives in Los Angeles, helps organize such trips ... Cohan's price
for
a kidney, he says, is $125,000 ... Only a small portion of the money actually
goes
to the person selling the organ -- as little as $800 ... [There is a
physician] who
has repeatedly been accused by the Israeli media, including one of the
nation's leading daily papers, Haaretz, of paricipating in hundreds of
overseas transplants, many of them in Turkey. The [Israeli] surgeon's name
is Zaki Shapira." [FINKEL, M., 5-26-01]

In 2001, an Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, announced that

"Romanian authorities are looking into the possible links between Israeli
adoption agencies and an illegal global conspiracy to sell organs for
transplants.
The Romanian embassy in Israel has asked for, and received from the Labor
and Social Affairs Ministry, a list of all children born in Romania who have
been brought to Israel for adoption in recent years. The Romanian officials
are trying to ascertain if all such children arrived in Israel with all their
organs in their bodies." [REZNICK, R., 12-13-01]

In the midst of the growing 1980s Wall Street scandal, the American Jewish
Committee held a panel discussion on Jewish ethics at a conference luncheon. The
Palm Beach Jewish Journal quoted Rabbi David Gordis as worrying that with all the
negative publicity some might see Jews in America broadly "as exploiters of the
economy, parasites, profiteers." [EHRLICH, p. 342] Judith Ehrlich and Barry Rehfeld
note that

"[Pointing] to the dangers to Jews from the prominence of Jewish names
in current scandals and the imagery that emerged from the visibility,
Rabbi Gordis urged that 'as a people we must look more deeply into
the recesses of our traditions, our experiences, our values.'"
[EHRLICH, p. 345]

The "crisis in Jewish ethics" in America, epitomized in the Wall Street
scandals, was of course nothing new to the 1980s. Well-publicized scandals involving
prominent and powerful Jews surface fairly regularly. Gerald Krefetz, for instance,
noted a particularly nasty Jewish-based scandal in the 1970s:

"Bathed in the merciless lights of Congressional hearings, the witnesses
exposed to a national audience the morbid, pathetic, and sordid
conditions of senior citizens in nursing and old-age homes. It was as if
they had found that a Jew was in charge of a concentration camp. The
whole proceedings were a shanda (shame) of the first order, [with] illegal
practices of a rabbi and other prominent Jews on a captive population
unable to protect itself ... [Rabbi Bernard] Bergman was more than a
symbolic figure of evil in the nursing home industry -- he was the
industry ... [KREFETZ, p. 128] ... It became clear that Bergman had
almost oligopolic powers, with interests in close to a hundred different
homes across the nation. It also became clear that perhaps more than any
other industry or service area, Jews dominated the field, that many of the
operators were Jewish, including Bergman, Eugene Hollander, and Albert
Schwartzberg ... Insensitivity, greed, and human degradation were the
hallmark of a majority of the private facilities. And that the chief
perpetrator of this terminal inhumanity should be an orthodox rabbi and a
prominent Zionist was a mind-boggling reversal of values ... [KREFETZ,
p. 129].... One illustration is perhaps typical of Bergman's operations,
his persistence, his political connections, and his unabashed use of his
'Jewishness' that he paraded as if he were its victim ... [KREFETZ, p.
131] ... The hypocritical Bergman was using the lethal and explosive
charge of anti-Semitism as a foil for his commercial maneuvers."
[KREFETZ, p. 132]

Bergman was prominent a number of Jewish Orthodox institutions. "Reputed to be
worth $100 million," notes Alan Dershowitz, "he had held the presidency of numerous
Jewish philanthropic, religious, and educational institutions." [DERSHOWITZ, 1987,
p. 126] He was "one of the richest and most powerful orthodox Jews in the world,"
notes Robert Friedman, "with close ties to Israel's National Religious Party. He
made a fortune from a national conglomerate of Medicaid nursing homes, where infirm
patients were left unattended to soak in their own urine ... No doubt Bergman
learned his business ethics from his parents who were not only bootleggers, but also
were convicted in 1941 of smuggling eight kilos of heroin from France in the
bindings of Hebrew prayer books." [FRIEDMAN, False, p. 17] "In my lifetime in this
city," declared another Jewish critic in the Village Voice, "I have never
encountered anyone as rotten as Bernard Bergman." Within three months, 62 articles
about Bergman were published in the New York Times alone. [DERSHOWITZ, 1987, p. 119]

Sensationally, the judge in the Bergman case, Marvin Frankel, sentenced the
rabbi to a term of only four months, a decision that elicited outrage from all
corners. A Jewish Congressman, notes Alan Dershowitz, "warned that 'there will be
anti-Semitism flowing from the fact' that the judge and defendant were both Jewish."
[DERSHOWITZ, p. 120] Special State Nursing Home Prosecutor Charles Hynes declared
the punishment "insubstantial" and that it was "special justice for the privileged."
[DERSHOWITZ, p. 120] A second judge, Aloysius Melia, reviewed the case and added a
year to Bergman's sentence.

In 1993, when prominent non-Jewish American lawyer Michael Tygar took up the
U.S. citizenship case of John Demjanjuk -- after his new client had been exonerated
in Israel of being the Nazi operative Ivan the Terrible -- a Jewish faculty member
at the Hofstra Law School, Monroe Freedman, publicly rebuked Demjanjuk's new lawyer
in a well-known law journal: "Is John Demjanjuk the kind of client to whom you want
to dedicate your training, your knowledge, your extraordinary skills?" [MARGOLICK,
p. B18] Tigar's response to Freedman's pained moral query was an emphatic yes.
Demjanjuk, after all, had never been proven to be guilty of any crime, and he had
been cleared of the charge of being Ivan the Terrible. And Monroe Freedman? Freedman
had been one of the lawyers for the aforementioned Rabbi Bergman who was found
guilty of particularly heinous crimes against the helpless elderly, a client who was
widely known as "the meanest man in New York." [MARGOLICK, p. B18]

Other scandals in the 1970s included that which caused non-Jewish actor Cliff
Robertson to be blacklisted for four years [MCCLINTICK, p. 518] by the largely
Jewish Hollywood crowd [see forthcoming media section] for reporting a forgery by
the president of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman. The investigation of Begelman
ultimately led to an embezzlement scandal and press investigations into the whole
unethical base of the film business itself. Robertson attracted animosity also
because of his public demands for further police investigation into something that
he believed to be merely the tip of an iceberg, especially after Begelman was
tentatively removed from his post at Columbia, but reinstated. "The entire
entertainment community had been shaken [by the scandal]," noted David McClintick in
1982, "Four of the seven major studios -- Columbia, Fox, MGM, and United Artists --
had changed drastically." [MCCLINTICK, p. 518] As the scandal attracted increased
media attention, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner's entertainment columnist noted the
essence of the situation: "The Washington Post apparently is incensed because the
Hollywood trade press never used the word 'embezzlement' [in referring to the
Begelman scandal]. There's a reason for that. Embezzlement is not a sin in
Hollywood. It's a way of life." [MCCLINTICK, p. 354] (Begelman had once been an
agent for Judy Garland who believed that he had stolen $200,000 from her). [SHIPMAN,
1993, p. 448]

[M.T.T.]

In 1977, Jewish author Michael Hellerman had his autobiography published. It was
entitled "Wall Street Swindler." Criminal associates noted that he was "the master
[swindler] of them all" and "when it comes to the big swindle, Hellerman is a
genius. He makes us all look like pikers." [HELLERMAN/RENNER, 1977, p. viii]
Hellerman grew up "in the bosom of a deeply religious affluent family in the heart
of suburban Long Island" but was "driven by an almost insatiable desire for riches
and luxury." [HELLERMAN/RENNER, 1977, p. ix] "As a thief," says Thomas Renner,

"Hellerman was the very personification of the white-collar criminal.
... Like the men of the Mafia he often dealt with and cheated, Hellerman
could and did leave his victims stripped of their dignity, financially
destitute, and psychologically traumatized." [HELLERMAN/RENNER,
1977,p. ix]

In the political realm, in 1977 the Jewish governor of Maryland, Marvin Mandel,
and four others were "convicted of conspiracy to have the Governor influence race
track legislation in return for $380,000 in bribes." [AYRES, B.D., p. A1] Mandel
served 19 months of a four year prison sentence. One of those convicted with him,
Irwin Kovens, "was a major sponsor of Mr. Mandel's political career. He helped raise
millions of dollars for Mr. Mandel's campaign for governor in 1970 and 1974." [NYT,
11-2-89, p. B21] [BALTIMORE JEWISH TIMES, 1-23-98, p. 8]

Shortly thereafter, in 1982, another Maryland Jewish politician was sentenced
to prison. Baltimore City Council President Walter Orlinsky pleaded guilty to "one
count of extortion ... [He also] conceded that the Government could prove other
charges against him." [NYT, 9-23-82, p. A24] [BALTMORE JEWISH TIMES, 1-23-98, p. 8]
He was originally indicted on 12 counts of extortion and mail fraud.

In 1999, Donald Warshaw, also Jewish, and Miami's powerful city manager, was
fired after nearly two years in the position. He faced a "federal indictment
charging he misspent public pension and charity funds on luxurious items." He was
accused of "spending $86,563 in pension and charity funds on trips, designer
clothes, $21,276 in hockey tickets and other things from 1993 to 1995 while serving
as police commissioner ... Warshaw's friend, accountant Ronald Stern, as named as an
unindicted co-conspirator. He killed himself in July 1999 after allegations surfaced
that he embezzled $500,000 from the pension fund while serving as its auditor and
investment adviser. He was also the charity's accountant." [WILSON, C., 10-11-2000]
In 1993, Dade County Commissioner (Miami, Florida) Joe Gersten, also Jewish, was
accused of smoking cocaine with a prostitute in a Miami drug den and subsequently
fled to Australia. [DE FEDE, J., 3-16-94]

In 1995, Joe Waldholtz, the Jewish husband of non-Jewish Utah Congressman Enid
Greene was exposed in a scandal that sent him to prison for 21 months and
effectively destroyed his wife's political career. Waldholtz, noted Salt Lake City's
Deseret News, "lied and bullied his way to notoriety ... during a scandal that
involved Waldholtz's ex-wife, then Congresswoman Enid Greene, check kiting, illegal
money transfers, federal election law violations, drug abuse and bizarre behavior
.. [He was] convicted of embezzling nearly $4 million from his former father-in-law
and illegally funneling most of it into Greene's 1994 election campaign [which she
won]." [DILLON, L., 5-29-99, p. A1] Greene, pleading complete innocence, divorced
him soon after the scandal.

In Florida, in 1999, State Senator Al Gutman was sentenced to two years in
prison for "conspiracy in a Medicare fraud case." Gutman and his wife Marci
"secretly owned companies that billed Medicare for health care services that were
not performed." He "collected at least $2 million from fraudulent billings while he
served in the Legislature." [FIELDS, T., 10-20-99; FIELDS, T., 10-26-99] In 2000,
Paul Adler, a "key" Hillary Clinton political adviser (particularly to the Jewish
community) and head of the Democratic Party in New York's Rockland County, was
arrested on charges of "public corruption, fraud, extortion, and other charges
linked to his real estate transactions." [FORWARD, 9-15-00, p. 15]

In the 1960s, a former Jewish socialist activist turned rich playboy, Bernie
Cornfeld, was probably that decade's best known financial swindler, defrauding
250,000 investors in his Investors Overseas Service (IOS) mutual funds company.
[NYT, 3-1-95, p. A10] With a million customers in 26 countries around the world,
and employing 20,000 employees, Cornfeld, amassing a personal fortune of over $100
million. He promised millions to Israeli causes and started a mutual fund system at
the Tel Aviv stock exchange. "Stories of shady dealings, mismanagement, plain
stupidity, what some lawyers were calling outright fraud, were filling the financial
pages of newspapers and magazines all over the world," noted one of his former
associates, Bert Cantor. [CANTOR, p. 8] Cantor also had this to say about who ran
the corrupt IOS business:

"A minor IOS executive in evaluating the company's personnel practices
remarked that status in the [company's] hierarchy could be measured in
four categories: 1) Nice Jewish boys from Brooklyn who belonged to
Bernie's Boy Scout troop, 2) Nice Jewish boys from Brooklyn, 3) Nice
Jewish boys, 4) Everyone else." [CANTOR, p. 7-8]

In 1975 Cornfeld was convicted for telephone fraud. In 1990, Forbes magazine
reported that the IRS claimed Cornfeld still owed $15 million in taxes going back
thirty years. [NYT, 3-1-95]

Another (extremely) noteworthy Jewish fraud of the Cornfeld era was that of
Stanley Goldblum. In the 1970s he was sentenced to prison for the 'biggest corporate
fraud in United States history," "one of history's greatest hoaxes." His Equity
Funding Corporation of America sold $2 billion worth of fake insurance policies
--64,000 of them -- to other insurers. In later years he surfaced as a criminal
again, arrested in 1999 "in a scheme to operate a number of medical clinics that
allegedly bilked the workers' compensation system." [NY TIMES, 3-26-75; GAW, p. C1]
[DIRKS/GROSS, p. 3-4]

Also in the 1960s, Australia had a memorable Jewish scandal. Stanley Korman,
notes Jewish commentator Leon Gettler,

"shocked and angered the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant pillars of the
establishment
back in the 60's. Sure, Korman was a crook. They hated him and sent him and
sent
him to jail for fleecing his shareholders. But they hated him even more because
he was Jewish." [GETTLER, L, 2000, p. 27]

More recently, much-publicized Jewish crime figures include the sensationally
ostentatious penny-pincher and tax evader, Leona Helmsley (Ms. Helmseley, noted the
Economist, "had long been labeled one of the villains of modern America. A witness
at her trial testified that she had once said 'only the little people pay taxes' and
the little people remembered." [ECONOMIST, 4-25-92, p. 28] "Helmsley," noted
Reuters, "was found guilty ... of writing off a wide variety of personal items as
business expenses, including bras, shoes and dresses, a million dollar pool cover
that doubled as a dance floor, and a $130,000 stereo system." [APPELSON])

Another big scandal of the 1980s focused on the Hollywood "madam” trafficker of
prostitutes to the stars, Heidi Fleiss, also Jewish and the daughter of a prominent
doctor. "Like Begelman," noted the Los Angeles Times, "the new [Fleiss] scandal
stands as a symbol of corruption in Hollywood." [ELLER, p. B8] Fleiss, noted
Entertainment Weekly, "has given two of the studio chieftains -- executive vice
president Michael Nathanson and executive vice president of production Barry
Josephson [both Jewish] -- leading roles in the ever-widening Hollywood sex
scandal." [KENNEDY, 8-20-93] "What is obvious is that the potential scandal," said
the New York Times, ".... involved heavy use of cocaine and other drugs ... One
executive, Michael Nathanson, president of production at Columbia Pictures, denied
on Tuesday, through his lawyer, Howard Weitzman, that he had used film-development
money to procure prostitutes..." [WEINRAUB, p A4] After Nathanson's denial of
involvement in the ring, Ivan Nagy (Fleiss's boyfriend, also arrested for soliciting
call girls) leaked a copy of her "black book" to the New York Daily News; it
included Nathanson's phone number.

Fleiss was eventually sentenced to prison in 1993 for attempted pandering, tax
evasion, and money laundering. She was once quoted as saying that the aforementioned
Bernie Cornfeld "was the only real boyfriend in my life." [WASH POST, 3-2-95, p. B4]
Fleiss' father, noted the Los Angeles Times, "a well-known Los Feliz pediatrician
who recently examined the newborn daughter of pop star Madonna, was previously
sentenced to three years' probation, 625 hours of community service and fined
$50,000 for conspiring to hide profits from his daughter's call girl ring."
[MCDONNELL, p. B1, B3]

A kindred soul in professional ethics to Dr. Heiss in the late 1960s and early
1970s was Dr. Max Jacobson. Nicknamed "Dr. Feelgood," his license to practice was
eventually suspended for routinely giving amphetamine injections into a large number
of celebrities. [SEAMAN, p. 386-388] Jacobson and another Jewish doctor, Lee
Siegel, are cited by one author as famous "drug pushers" for Hollywood studios.
There were "stories," notes Dennis McDougal, "about physicians on the TV or movie
set who injected stars with 'vitamins' to keep them performing ... It became clear
after a while that [movie star] agents did not interfere with the addictions that
were killing Allen Ladd, Montgomery Cliff, and Judy Garland." [MCDOUGAL, p. 259] Dr.
Robert Feder, another Hollywood physician, "gave amphetamines, or uppers, to some of
his patients if they needed to be 'on' for a particular performance or day." In the
case of drug-addicted actor John Belushi, Feder fed him uppers through Belushi's
agent, Bernie Brillstein [WOODWARD, 1984, p. 244-245]

Doctor Melvyn Rosenstein is also a noteworthy surgeon. Self-described as the
"world's leading authority on penile surgery," he spent $250,000 a month in
advertising across the country in an effort to entice men to have surgical penis
elongation. He reportedly netted $30 million in this practice between 1991 and 1995.
By then, however, dozens of men (over 40 in southern California alone) had
surmounted their embarrassment to come forward to sue him for malpractice, for
misinformation, and for deforming their sexual organs. A California Medical Board
spokesman declared that those who had come forward to sue Rosenstein were "the tip
of the iceberg." In 1996 Rosenstein was forbidden to further practice his lucrative
trade. [HOLDING, R., 4-24-95, p. A9; SHUIT, D., 3-5-96, p. B1] (In the women's world
of cosmetic surgery, socialite Joyce Wildenstein -- one of the heirs to the opulent
Jewish Wildenstein art gallery dynasty -- has become the much lambasted symbol in
the New York media for those who have had face lifts too many times).

Moving along in the generic fraud department, up north, in Ontario, Canada, in
1991 Jewish lawyer Herman Melnitzer parked his Jaguar XJS coupe and "pleaded guilty
to one of Canada's biggest cases of fraud." [TYLER, p. A1] He was charged with 43
cases of "forgery, fraud and attempted fraud relating to $1 billion worth of phony
stock certificates he used to trick banks into giving him $43 million in lines of
credit, $12.3 million which was spent." [TYLER, p. A1]

Also in the 1990s, certainly a rival to the claim of "Canada's biggest fraud,”
the Bre-X gold mining scam swept the world's imagination in what the Ottawa Citizen
eventually called a "monumental swindle." It began when a small company (co-owned
by David Walsh, Michael de Guzman, and John Felderhof) in Calgary, Canada, claimed
to have discovered a huge new source of gold in Indonesia. Soon enough, the head
(Peter Munk; also Jewish) of Canada's largest gold producer (Barrick Gold
Corporation) was a player in the story. "In the heat of negotiations between [Munk's
company] and Bre-X," notes the Citizen,

"one of Munk's executives was reluctant to talk business with his boss
on Yom Kippur, an important Jewish holiday when Munk would be
observing the Day of Atonement. Munk dismissed his vice-president's
concerns. 'This is more important to me than anything. I know it. God
knows it. And there's no point in trying to fool anyone about it.'"
[SHER, p. E4]

While investors clamored to join the group that promised enough gold to rival
the gross national product of the nearby Philippines, nothing substantial was ever
found.

Steve Gaines notes the case of Jewish mogul Barry Trupin and his Rothschild
Reserve International company:

"What made Trupin really rich was his 1976 discovery of a tax loophole
from which he could spin a personal fortune of $300 million, a 'money-
making machine,' he called it. Trupin found that a company could earn
huge tax deductions by leasing computers instead of buying them. Almost
every aspect of the transaction was deductible ... Although perfectly legal,
the dodge was a little cloudy. He began to proclaim himself the 'master of
corporate veil.'" [GAINES, S., 1998, p. 230]

In 1997 Trupin "was indicted by the U. S. government as a tax cheat for the
avoidance of $6.6 million in taxes." He was also "convicted in federal district
court of receiving, possessing, and selling a stolen painting [by Marc Chagall]."
Also, "thirty-nine investors in Trupin's various companies were suing him" and the
FBI "launched an investigation into Trupin's interest in a Tustin, California, bank
in which he had bought a 62 percent controlling interest and had introduced a number
of loans that had to be written off as bad." [GAINES, S., 1998, p. 270]

In 1997, Arnie Zaler was arrested in Arizona for fraud totaling millions of
dollars, swindling as many as 60 people. Earlier, he had been so well-established
in the Phoenix community that he was considered a strong Democratic candidate for
Congress. The Arizona Republic notes that, when financial troubles began to hit him
in 1994,

"Zaler dropped out of sight. Private investigators hired by investors
discovered that he had been laying low in Phoenix and Denver, and
occasionally slipping out of the country to spend time in Israel. Zaler
had dual citizenship in the United States and Israel. They even learned
that Zaler made a large donation to a new temple outside Tel Aviv
that was named after him." [MILLER, E., p. A1]

In 1992, Larry Douglas, a well-known Jewish New York City political activist
in Democratic mayoral and Presidential campaigns, "disappeared." The New York Times
noted that a city councilman and close friend of Douglas, Robert J. Dryfoos

"was embroiled in a Federal tax-evasion scandal, and rumors flew that
Mr. Douglas had his own tax problems. He took a plane to Israel and
didn't come back until the cases had been dropped." [TOY, Sec1, p.
27]

As noted above, if threatened with exposure and arrest in America, an
emergency bailout for Israeli, American-Jewish, or any other international Jewish
criminals throughout the world is Israel's Law of Return, in which Jews can
essentially rush to Israel for sanctuary. Israeli law officially forbids the
extradition of any Israeli citizen for crimes committed in another country, and any
Jew on earth may acquire -- by simple birthright, and an application -- Israeli
citizenship. Many American Jews do indeed hold both American and Israeli
citizenships. This curious convenience garnered considerable outrage and publicity
in the 1997 case of American-born Samuel Sheinbein -- the son of (technically) an
Israeli citizen -- who was accused of murder. The teenager fled to Israel and sought
refuge under the "law of return" for worldwide Jewry.

Sheinbein's accused crime was particularly heinous: he and another Jewish youth
(old friends from the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School) were charged with murder,
including sawing off the Hispanic victim's arms and legs with a chainsaw, and
attempting to burn the body. The other teenager accused in the case, Adam Needle,
was arrested and jailed; he subsequently committed suicide. Sheinbein, meanwhile,
had hurried off to Israel, a place he was visiting for the first time in his life.

Sheinbein's plan of escape rested on his father, Shlomo, who had immigrated to
America from Israel with his family in 1950, at the age of 6. This entitled him to
perpetual Israeli citizenship. He eventually became a lawyer and was so "American"
that he was even employed by the Pentagon. [BALTIMORE SUN, 10-11-97, p. 23]
Ironically, Shlomo's own father had been murdered in Tel Aviv in 1982. The London
Guardian notes that

"He was shot in the head at close range in his office, from where he was
suspected of organizing illegal money transfers between Israel and the
United States. He left property valued at pounds 44 million."
[BORGER, p. 16]

The American government formally requested from Israel the extradition of
Samuel Sheinbein to be tried for murder. As far the Jewish state was concerned,
however, if Sheinbein's father was indeed an Israeli citizen, his son must also be
considered a citizen -- no matter that he had never been to Israel -- and therefore
immune from extradition to America.

In October 1997, the Israeli government formally refused the American
extradition request. "He cannot be extradited," declared an Israeli Justice Ministry
spokesperson, "He was an Israeli citizen when the crime was committed." [ASSOC.
PRESS, p. 62] This decision elicited an extremely unusual storm of outrage and
indignation within the U.S. Congress. Shortly thereafter, members of that
legislative body announced that it was postponing a scheduled transfer of $180
million in U.S. aid to Israel. Newly attentive, Israel later suggested a Sheinbein
trial in Israel, and eventually a further compromise: Sheinbein could be tried in
America, but would serve his prison term in Israel.

In May 1998, U.S. prosecutors rejected such compromise proposals. As Agence
France Presse noted:

"Justice officials in Maryland had expressed concern that Sheinbein
would be released early if he served a term in Israel." [AFP, 5-3-98,
ONLINE]

Meanwhile, all the bad press and economic Congressional action forced some
major American Jewish agencies to take extremely unusual positions on the case, that
is to say, to publicly criticize Israel. "Noting the victim was a Hispanic youth,"
noted the Jerusalem Post, "the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has warned
that failure [to extradite Sheinbein] will have 'consequences which transcend this
case alone.'" [J.P., 10-9-97, p. 8] Even the Executive Director of the American
Jewish Congress, Phil Baum, announced that "Sheinbein's connection to Israel is so
patently tenuous as to verge on the fraudulent." [PR NEWSWIRE, 10-9-97, ONLINE]
"Regardless of how it may be presented,” the Jerusalem Post editorialized, "a
failure to expedite will be interpreted by many as Israel's willingness to shield
people accused of committing heinous crimes." [J.P., 10-9-97, p. 8] "[The]
extradition law is part of Israeli law, end of story," noted Stuart Schoffman in the
Washington Post, "But alongside this flat formulation runs an age-old protective
instinct: You don't surrender a Jew to the gentiles." [SCHOFFMAN, p. B1]

Israel eventually decided that Samuel Sheinbein was not a citizen after all,
because of a small technicality: Israel's Law of Return was suddenly noted to have
been created two years after Sheinbein's father left Israel, and therefore not
applicable to him and his son. Nonetheless, by a 3-2 vote, in February 1999 the
Israeli Supreme Court ruled finally that Sheinbein could claim Israeli citizenship
and could not be extradited. "I am disappointed in Israel," said the Maryland
lawyer, Douglas Ganser (who is also Jewish), set to prosecute the case in America,
"because the [Israeli] ruling didn't make sense. It's not even a close call. It
looks bad for the Jewish people." [BESSER, J., 3-5-99, p. 10]

At the same time as the Sheinbein fiasco, the United States government was also
trying to extradite Chaim Berger from Israel to stand trial in America too. While
the Jewish state was deciding what to do with this case, in May 1999, "despite
objections by United States law-enforcement officials, an Israeli court ... approved
an unusual $3 million bail agreement" for this founder of a Hasidic community in New
York. Under the "personal bond" of two Israeli rabbis and the governments housing
minister, Berger was allowed complete freedom from jail in mornings and evenings.
"U.S. officials warned Israel against freeing Berger, contending that he fled New
York 18 months ago knowing he would be indicted for his part in stealing $20 million
in federal and state education and housing grants and subsidies. Four other
co-defendants were also indicted in the U.S. -- two of them were yet in hiding. A
rabbi in Berger's community complained that "the [Hasidic] community's sense is the
government's pound of flesh has been exacted and there's no need to drag a 73-year
old Holocaust survivor into this." [GREENBERG, J.J., 3-12-99, p. 12]

In the 1980s, France had its own major run-in with Israel's shielding of
international Jewish criminals when Israel's Ministry of Justice delayed for years
the extradition of a French Jew, William Nakash. Nakash had been convicted there for
murder. "French officials," noted Reuters, "insist that [Nakash was involved in] a
gangland killing between rival pimps." [TAYLOR, ONLINE] The Jewish Week noted the
mood in Israel, however, about France's extradition request:

"Nakash, who claims to be newly Orthodox, has been passionately
defended by Orthodox Jews and right-wing nationalists. They have
depicted him a hero who killed an Arab in self-defense, a 'nationalistic'
act forced upon him by unbearable harassment by Jew-hating Arabs,
abetted by a climate of rampant anti-Semitism in [the French town of]
Besancon." [EYTAN, p. 3, 34]

A former Deputy Mayor of Besancon, a Jewish lawyer named Jacques Lorach,
responded by saying that "Never in my life, and certainly not in my political
career, have I heard or been told an anti-Semitic remark." The town even has "one of
the largest and most impressive memorials to the Holocaust outside Yad Vashem in
Jerusalem and it was financed exclusively by the city and regional authorities."
[EYTAN, p. 3, 34]

Nakash was finally only considered eligible for extradition when he proved to be
a criminal problem in his new home. As the Chicago Tribune noted,

"In 1985, Nakash, by then an Israeli citizen, was arrested near Jerusalem
for plotting to rob a senior Christian prelate of 60 bars of gold and $2
million in cash. When Israeli police realized Nakash was the same man
sentenced for the Besancon murder, two courts, including Israel's
Supreme Court, ruled that he was extraditable to France ... [But] mindful
of the political damage [in Israel] that Nakash's extradition could cause,
Justice Minister Avraham Sharir, an astute Likud politician, ignored the
opinion of the Courts and last week barred Nakash's extradition."
[BRODER, p. C1]

In 2000, 124 people from the Paris Sentier district were put on trial, accused
of embezzling $77 million from French banks. "The Sentier area of Paris [is the]
center of the Jewish-run garment industry." [WEBSTER, 12-7-89] "The Sentier garment
district in Paris .. is majority-owned by French Jews." [AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE,
7-16-99] The Sentier district "is renowned as the center for the rag-trade and a
base for petty criminals." [GRAHAM, R., 2-20-01] "Thirteen of the accused, Israeli
nationals or holders of dual Franco-Israeli nationality," noted the Jerusalem Post,
"have fled to Israel." Struggling to get the Jewish state to extradite the accused
criminals for trial, French prosecutor Francois Franchi complaned that "Israel has
put itself beyond the pale of the international community. Its banking system
encourages actions which explain what happened in this case." [LEVEQUE, 2-25-01, p.
4]

"Investigators [into the Sentier affair]," noted Agence France Presse, "also
uncovered money laundering networks with Austria, Belgium, and Israel ... most of
the defendants are accused of being part of a criminal network." [AGENCE FRANCE
PRESSE, 2-20-01] And the implications of the Sentier scandal to the Jewish community
at-large? "Leaders of France's 750,000-strong Jewish community," noted the Jerusalem
Post, "have privately fretted for months about possible effects on public opinion of
the trial, which opened in a courtroom built specially to accommodate the mass of
defendants and lawyers." [LEVEQUE, 2-25-01, p. 4]

Meanwhile, France was also trying to extradite Arkadi Gaydamak (Gaidamek), "a
billionaire industrialist," from Israel for trial on charges of illegal arms
trading. Gaydamak has Israeli, Canadian, French, and Angola passports. Newspaper
reports noted that this mogul "had close ties with Danny Yatom, the security adviser
to caretaker Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak." Gaydamak "called attacks on his
character as 'aimed at a Jew and a Russian who succeeded in business.'" [AGENCE
FRANCE PRESSE, 12-29-00]

Elsewhere, in 1993 Poland requested the extradition of two Polish Jews,
Boguslaw Bagsik and Andrzej Gasiorowski, owners of the Art-B Trading Company (which
owned 200 other companies), who had fled to Israel in 1991. They were accused, noted
Reuters, "of stealing ... $310 million in the country's biggest financial scandal."
[REUTERS, 5-20-92] Bagsik was known to have Polish, German, and Israeli citizenship.
[REUTERS, 8-16-91, p. 16] Israeli authorities conceded that at least $85 million
had been transferred by Bagsik to the Jewish state. An Israeli newspaper reported
that Gasiorowski complained of discrimination in Poland by "people feeling
anti-Semitic sentiments." [POLISH NEWS BULLETIN, 8-91, p. 1] Bagsik was captured in
Switzerland the next year and faced 15 years in a Polish jail. Israel refused the
extradition of Gasiorowski. [PAP NEWSWIRE, 1-31-97]

In 1994, another newsworthy Polish Jew, Solomon Morel, fled to Israel when
Polish authorities sought to question him about his role in "possible postwar crimes
against German civilians." [NEWSWEEK, 1-3-94, p. 6] Israel refused to return him to
Poland. Likewise, in 2000, the Israeli government refused to extradite Nahman
Dushanski back to Lithuania where he is wanted for taking "part in the murder of
Lithuanian prisoners during Soviet occupation in 1941." Lithuania also requested the
extradition of Simion Borkov from Israel on similar charges. [MELMAN, 2-10-2999]

In 1992, yet another Jewish predator of the embryonic Polish capitalist state,
David Bogatin, made international news for his corrupt bank (with 14 offices) in
Poland. "Last month," noted the Montreal Gazette,

"a muckraking journalist discovered Bogatin's First Commercial Bank
was founded on fraud. Bogatin was unmasked as a con man -- alleged
to have connections with United States and Russian criminal syndicates --
who fled the United States after conviction on a tax evasion charge."
[MCKINSEY, K, 2-13-92, p. A12]

Bogatin, originally from the Soviet Union, had emigrated to the United States
in 1977. Starting out as cab driver, by 1985 he was involved in shady business
dealings, the Mafia, and major tax evasion. By 1987, he was arrested in Vienna for
"carrying counterfeit securities." Bogatin, also noted as "one of [America's]
biggest gasoline bootleggers," was eventually extradited to the United States and
sentenced to prison for tax evasion. [LEGAL INTELLIGENCER, 5-15-92, p. 5]

From the Ukraine, in 1994 the Jewish acting head of the Ukrainian cabinet,
Yefim Zvyagilsky, "was faced with charges of embezzlement of state property [worth
$25 million]." [STETSYURA] After fleeing to Israel, the Jewish state denied the
Ukrainian request for his extradition. "Ukrainian officials," noted Reuters, "say
Zvyagilsky, a Jew by origin, acquired an Israeli passport during his two and a half
years in Israel but he denies this ... Some top [Ukrainian] government officials,
including Foreign Minister Hennady Vdovenko have suggested that Ukrainian
authorities might have to think twice before appointing Jews to senior jobs in the
future." [REUTERS, 2-12-97]

In April 1997 the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported an intriguing banking
story from Russia:

"The head of a large Russian bank who is also a prominent member of
the country's Jewish community has been detained in Moscow on
suspicion of embezzling more than $120 million ... Arkady Angelevich,
who heads Moscow's Montazhspetsbank and is a member of the
presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress, has been in prison since
last week ... Angelevich was arrested on the way to the airport, where
he was planning to leave for Israel, according to news reports."
[KRICHEVSKY, 4-25-97, p. 6]

In 2001, Agence France Presse reported that

"Spain's top criminal court on Monday turned down a request by Russian
media magnate and Israeli-passport holder Vladimir Gusinsky to travel
to Israel to cast his vote in elections ... [Gusinsky faces] extradition to
Russia to face fraud charges." [AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, 2-5-01]

Gusinsky is the head of the Russian Jewish Congress. Within two weeks, another
prominent Russian Jew made the criminal news:

"The arrest of the well-known St. Petersburg businessman and vice-president
of the Russian Jewish Congress [Mikhail Mirilashvili] has caused outrage
in some political circles in Israel." [ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, 2-16-01]

Mirilashvili also has both Russian and Israeli citizenship.

(Another Eastern European Jewish mogul, Vadim Rabinovich, is founder and
president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress. He too has known "ties to Russian
organized crime.") [BONNER, R., 6-12-01]

Even in war-torn Serbia, in 1994 the (Jewish) Forward noted that there were
fears of an anti-Semitic backlash when Jews locally masterminded

"a billion dollar embezzlement racket. The scandal, a classic pyramid
scheme, involved two banks, Yugoskandic and Dafiment ... Both
banks claimed close links to Israel, and thousands queued over their
money. Then the banks collapsed. The owner of Yugoskandic
absconded to Israel with his investment money..." [RUBIN, E, p. 1]

This owner, Jezda Yasiljevic, notes the London Sunday Times, "fled to Israel,
where he threatened to fund hit squads against politicians who turned against him."
[BRANSON] In 1992, Vasiljevic had purchased an island off the Montenegrin coast,
"once the playground of Richard Burton and Sophia Loren," for hundreds of millions
of dollars. [BRANSON] The next year, notes the Christian Science Monitor,

"tens of thousands of panicked Belgraders besieged a soccer stadium
yesterday where numbered tickets were being given to withdraw money
from a private bank. The rush followed the collapse last week of another
bank whose owner fled to Israel, leaving a tangle that threatened to bring
down the whole economy of the remaining Yugoslavia." [BRANSON,
p. 3]

"Vasiljevic's bank," said Time, "ran a classic Ponzi scheme, using new
deposits to pay the interest on old ones." [GREENWALD, p. 58]

A sampling of other newsworthy items about Jews committing crimes throughout
the world and then hurrying to Israel for refuge include:

* Members of the Jewish Defense League. Between 1981 and 1987,
the FBI blamed Jewish groups for 24 terrorist acts in the U.S. -- 17
of them were believed to be perpetrated by the JDL. [THORNTON,
p. A19] The Washington Post reported that "the Israeli government
has failed to cooperate with a U.S. investigation of Jewish Defense
League (JDL) members and associates suspected in a series of
bombings and terrorist incidents in this country, according to an
internal Federal Bureau of Investigations memo. The memo ... said
several key suspects in the investigation have fled to Israel."
[THORNTON, p. A19] In 1992, seven years after the murder by
bombing of Arab-American Alex Odeh, the president of the Arab-
American Anti-Discrimination Organization Albert Mokhiber,
complained that "the American government is asking to interrogate
American citizens [in Israel] on a crime that occurred in America
and the Israeli government is preventing it." [HEDGES, p. A3]
Among others, William Ross, an important philanthropist to the
Meir Kahane and his Kach Party, carried out a mail bomb murder
"not for politics but for his own profit." [TUGEND, 8-19-88, p. 8]

* Gordon Wolfson. In 1985 he was convicted of 34 counts of mail
fraud after cheating investors out of $50 million in a real estate
scam.
Five days before Wolfson's sentencing, he paid the Israeli
vice-consul in Miami, David Mordechai, $125,000 to arrange to
get him on an El Al flight to Israel. Mordechai was sentenced two
years later to six years in U.S. prison for aiding the criminal.
"[Mordechai] did something that every Jew hopes to do once
in his lifetime," explained his lawyer, "that is help a Jew go to
Israel." [UPI, 1-10-87]

* Eddie Antar. Head of a chain of electronics stores called Crazy
Eddie, Antar escaped to Israel and lived under the name of "David
Cohen" after a $63 million securities fraud judgment against him by
the Securities Exchange Commission.
[UPI, 6-24-92, ONLINE]

* Dov and Ayala Engel. The two fled to Israel from Brooklyn in 1998
after swindling American banks out of $100 million through their
company Kent International. (Although eventually brought to justice
in the U.S., in 2001 the New York Post noted that Dov "plans to cut
his 11-year [prison] sentence to less than half by serving time in the
Jewish state ... Under a 1999 extradition-treaty amendment, he can
serve his sentence in that country [Israel], where fraud charges carry
a maximum of five years' imprisonment." [SMITH, K., 12-4-01]

* Michael Vishedsky and Shlomo Wishedsky. These two owners
of a Brooklyn shoe store fled to Israel after committing "the largest
Medicaid fraud ever uncovered in New York state, possibly the
country." [UPI, 4-16-96]

* Michael Schiff. In 1995, known by Chicago-area police authorities
to have both American and Israeli citizenship, he raped and
sodomized a woman who he was interviewing for a (non-existent)
job as a nanny. He then fled to Israel. "Under terms of a U.S.-Israeli
agreement," noted the Chicago Tribune, "the Tel Aviv government
will not extradite one of its own citizens." [HILKEVITCH, p. 3, N]

* Richard Minns -- Minns, is "the former jet-setting health club
owner who was implicated but never charged in connection with the
shooting of his former lover, in October 1980." She sued him for
the injuries suffered and won $42.6 million in 1991. Minns by
now was in Israel: [He] never showed up in court for depositions
[in Texas] in connection with the suit ... [He] lived in Israel at the
time of the trial ... [His lawyer son] says his father disinherited him
... because he married a woman who was not Jewish..." [SAPINO,
B., 4-6-92]

* Ezra Murad. A diamond dealer, in 1989 he was accused of
defrauding Norway's second largest bank of $3 million.
[HOROVITZ]

* Samuel Dagan. An Israeli, he swindled two American banks out of
$6 million. (Israel relented in this case and extradited him to the U.S.
-- probably because of the problems he caused to Israel itself.
Dagan had 21 earlier convictions in the Jewish state for fraud and
extortion). [UPI, 8-15-90]

* Yosef Lisch. A Hasidic Jew, in 1998 he fled to Israel after the car
he was driving in a motorcade for a prominent Orthodox rabbi hit and
killed a seven year old Black child in the Crown Heights area of New
York, resulting in local riots and increased Black-Jewish tensions.
[NOEL, p. 27]

* Ronald Carmon. An Israeli-born lawyer, he worked for a New York
City program that offered legal services to the poor. He fled to Israel
after being caught defrauding the city out of $7,000. [UPI, 12-22-88]

* Nahum Vaskevitch. In 1994, this former head of the international
mergers and acquisitions for Merrill Lynch in London absconded to
Israel after an illegal "insider trader" scheme netted him $4 million.
Fellow conspirator David Sofer was also Israeli. [APPELSON]

* Ilan Mayan. In 1987, Mayan murdered a man in Los Angeles and
fled to Israel, but was later arrested in Switzerland. [LA TIMES, 6-
25-87]

* Daniel Weiz. Weiz fled to Israel from Toronto after being charged
with second-degree murder. "Police have described the case as a random
assault by a group wearing ski masks." [ASSOCIATED PRESS, 12-15-99]

* Natchum Gal. "In Alberta [Canada] in 1982," noted the Toronto
Star, "Dr. Natchum Gal turned off the respirator sustaining a brain-
damaged newborn girl and authorized a nurse to administer 15
milligrams of morphine. The child died 40 minutes later. Gal denied
any wrong doing, but he fled to Israel before facing a murder
charge." [TORONTO STAR, 10-15-94, p. A4]

* "Billy" King. In 1998 the New York Law Journal noted that he
"fraudulently transferred to himself valuable estate properties
consisting of commercial buildings in Manhattan. Subsequently, he
remains a fugitive." [NY LAW, p. 31]

* Dror Haim Goldberg, an Israeli. Indicted in 1999 for murdering
Manuela Silverio in a Houston wig shop, "[police] strongly suspect
he has fled to Israel, which prohibits the extradition of its citizens
for
prosecution." [HOUSTON CHRONICLE, p. A30] "It was vicious,"
said Houston police sergeant George Aldreta, "We don't know the
exact reason for it, but we suspect he may have done it for the pure
pleasure of killing somebody." [AP, 2-12-99]

* Jeffrey Ashkenazi. Ashkenazi was a doctor in the small town of
Greenville, Michigan. He was arrested in 1998, initially on a mail-fraud
charge. Ashkenazi, noted the Associated Press, "had his medical
license suspended after improperly treating 10 patients, one of whom
died ... [He] reserved one-way plane tickets to Israel for himself and
family." [ASSOCIATED PRESS, 8-11-98]

* Paul Stern. Stern was indicted in 1971 for his part in a scam to
defraud insurance companies, including fake care accidents and
medical bills. He was not arrested until 1997, when he tried to enter
the U.S. from overseas. Stern, noted the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin,
"was believed to have been in Israel the whole time." [STEPHENS,
B., 4-9, 97]

* Kenyon Schulman. "Where is Kenyon Schulman?" asked the
Houston Chronicle in 1992, "Harris County prosecutors ... learned
through Schulman's lawyer ... that he's somewhere in Israel, probably
Tel Aviv." Schulman was wanted for questioning when 400 hits of the
drug Ecstasy were found in the trunk of his BMW. He had been
arrested earlier, in 1988, for computer hacking. [MAKEIG, 10-21-92,
p. A23]

* Sholam Weiss. He was the kingpin of the "nation's largest-ever
insurance fraud" and, along with three of his four co-defendants
(Jan Schneiderman, Jan Starr, and Keith Pound), was convicted
of "racketeering, fraud, money laundering and other charges." Weiss
was the brains behind criminal looting the National Heritage Life
Insurance Company and was sentenced to "what is believed to be
the largest Federal prison term ever imposed" -- 845 years. "Many
of the company's 35,000-40,000 policy holders lost most of their life
savings." Most were elderly, living in Florida. The criminal
investigation against Weiss "followed a five year criminal investigation
across nine states and led to dozens of indictments." On October 18,
1999, Weiss skipped his $500,000 bail bond and a New York court
sentencing, thereby making the FBI's Most-Wanted list. A reward of
$125,000 was also offered for information leading to his capture.
Weiss was alleged to be in Israel, Austria, Brazil, or Belgium. Some
suspected he was hiding in America. The presiding judge in his case
also fined Weiss over $123 million, the criminal was also ordered to
pay back another $125 million in restitution to insurance policyholders,
and another judgment against him demanded $339 more for his
crimes.
Weiss was raised in the Borough Park section of metropolitan
New York City in a cloistered ultra-Orthodox community. He was
"educated in a yeshiva [Jewish religious school], where he spoke
Yiddish ... he did not learn to speak English until he was in his late
teens." This criminal also "claimed that he was a victim of company
executives who lured him unknowingly into the conspiracy and took
advantage of his ties to the Jewish community." Weiss was
earlier indicted in 1994 for mail fraud. He was also a co-owner of the
famous Studio 54 nightclub and the Scores striptease joint.
He "testified that he was involved in several business ventures with
lawyer Michael Blutrich and Lyle Pfeffer, who owned Scores in
secret partnership with the mob." Pfeffer and Blutrich were
sentenced to 25 years in prison for their roles in the National Heritage
insurance fraud. [RASHBAUM, W., 3-9-2000; RASHBAUM, W.,
11-22-99; ASSOCIATED PRESS, 11-2-99]

For some reason, Jewish American scamsters Harold and Alan Lieberman chose
Chile, and not Israel, as their refuge from the arm of American law. The two fled
the U.S. in 1992 to escape prison for fraud. "Their sudden departure," noted the St.
Louis Post Dispatch, "came three years after the collapse of Lieberman Corporation,
once one of the nation's top home builders." The brothers "left debts of $15 million
and a 37-page Federal indictment accusing them of defrauding lenders, customers and
contractors. They took with them a reported $6 million." [MIHAOPOULOS, D., 3-1-98]

Living in luxury in Santiago, "the Liebermans enjoyed a daily routine of
Spanish lessons and every-Saturday visits to the Jewish temple." In 1997, Alan's
wife and another man were caught trying to smuggle $750,000 back into the United
State. Ms. Lieberman also had cocaine in her purse. Alan soon returned to America
and was sentenced to prison. Brother Harold continued to resist expulsion from
Chile, eventually committing suicide. [MIHALOPOULS, D., 3-1-98]

Fugitive (since 1983) Jewish American financier Marc Rich [who merits further
discussion later in this chapter] chose Switzerland to escape the arm of American
law. Nonetheless, he became an Israeli citizen in 1994 and "has donated about $200
million over the last 20 years to Israel and worldwide Jewish charities." [DOBBS,
M., 2001, 2-21-01]

"Maryland con man" Martin Bramson ("the mastermind of one of America's largest
insurance fraud schemes") chose Europe to hide. Tracked by Interpol for three years,
Bramson was finally arrested in the tiny country of Liechtenstein where he fought
extradition back to America to face charges of "money laundering, wire fraud and
mail fraud." Bramson had swindled thousands of doctors and laundered money through
588 banks in countries throughout the world, including $43 million in a two-year
period in Anguilla alone. Others in his business scams included his father Norman
(an optometrist who went to prison in 1980) and his brother Leonard (a lawyer who
went to prison in 1990). [JAMES, M., 5-17-95, p. A1; JAMES, M., 12-13-97, p. A1]

In 1997, Ira Einhorn was arrested in France for the 1981 murder of a woman in
Philadelphia. He had "vanished" just before his trial was to begin. Einhorn was a
"former peace activist," Philadelphia's "most recognized activist, a wildly dressed
advocate of psychedelic drugs, communal living, Eastern mysticism and environmental
consciousness," and "a friend and guru to prominent Philadelphians in another era."
"Peace and love was what he stood for," said one acquaintance. [NEW YORK TIMES,
6-18-97, p. A14]

Yet another Jewish renegade, from Texas, is Alexander Ross (alias Alexander
Cohen, or William Cohen), a man who was not a licensed dentist but practiced anyway,
eventually a fugitive in 1999 for both sexually molesting young patients and
Medicaid fraud. "FBI and police," noted the Houston Chronicle, "have begun an
international hunt for Ross. Investigators think he has spent at least several
months in Panama." [SMITH, M., 6-27-99, p. A1]

Perhaps Ross knows Jeffrey Gottlieb, wanted by Alaska's State Medical Fraud
Unit for over billing Medicaid, stealing drugs from doctors, and selling drugs to
drug dealers. "Gottleib told the State licensing board that he attended a medical
school in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 1974-77, then went to study religion in Israel,
then returned to receive a medical degree in 1986 from American University of the
Caribbean on the Island of Monseratt ... One of Gottleib's patients [later arrested]
alone received 2 percent of all the controlled drugs prescribed to Medicaid patients
in Alaska." [TOOMEY, S., 5-2-2000, p. 1A]

Among other Jewish fraudsters who didn't head for Israel is Hal Kaplan, a
master con-man who has used "eight known aliases and been convicted of fraud, theft,
forgery, and bigamy." Married eight times, his favorite ploy, noted the Los Angeles
Times in 1993, is to marry rich women to "loot their bank accounts." [GABRIEL, p.
18] Yet another kindred soul is Charles Ray Lonberger, arrested in 1990, who ran a
series of charity frauds, often under the pretense of raising money for the Jewish
Federation Council. [MEYER, J., p. J1] Another, from the early 1980s, was Eduardo
Rabiea, son of Iraqi Jews who immigrated to the United States from Israel. Rabiea
was described by a New York prosecutor as "a master of deceit and deception who is
wanted for fraud all over the world," absconding with over $60 million in swindles.
[RAAB, S., p. B1] A fellow soul is also Britain's Jonathan Kern, also Jewish, who
was arrested while entertaining two prostitutes in 1999. Also wanted for fraud and
various scams all over the globe, Kern "has previously impersonated members of the
Rolling Stones, and fooled a Park Lane garage into lending him a pounds 44,000 BMW
by posing as a record producer." Among other ploys, he has pretended he was a well
known British auto race commentator, Jonathan Palmer, creating bills in Palmer's
name all over Europe. "You are a persistent criminal and a man who deceives as a way
of life," a sentencing judge told Kern. [PRYER, N., 1999]

[M.T.T.]

In a 1994 Toronto Life article entitled "Con Man," the criminal life of Patrick
White was explored, stemming from his defrauding of a local newspaper of $20,000.
"Charmed by White's affable manner, by his habit of smiling when he spoke," and "by
the Torah he displayed on his night table," David Mackin allowed alleged investor
Mr. White to take over as Managing Editor of his small newspaper. "White," notes
Toronto Life, "was regularly attending Kensington market synagogue and by all
appearances was a devoutly religious man." [TORONTO LIFE, 11-94] Once White
absconded, it was learned that he was a master fraudster. He had served jail time in
Canada in 1978 for "indecent assault," and in 1982 for "a pair of fraud
convictions." And there were outstanding arrest warrants for him across North
America: Ontario -- theft, Virginia -- sexual assault against a boy, New York --
larceny, Mississippi -- sodomy and sexual assault against a boy, Ontario -- theft,
Nova Scotia -- theft and fraud, Virginia -- sexual assault, and Alberta -- sexual
asssault. In New Brunswick, he then hired 35 people for nonexistent jobs for a
nonexistent night club, charging them each $100 for "uniforms." While in Toronto,
White once hired three boys to shovel snow from his sidewalk. Inviting them inside,
he showed them pornography. "When police searched the house," notes Toronto Life,
"they found a cache of pornography along with religious texts White had borrowed
from a local rabbi. It was entitled The Sexual Morality of Young People." [TORONTO
LIFE, 11-94]

Another noteworthy con man of Jewish heritage is Stanley Cherry (alias
"Stefanos Coreey"). In 1999 a Canadian woman fell in love with him but was the
"victim ... of a fraud artist so diabolical that he left her almost destitute:
without savings, without access to credit and in danger of losing her home." Total
losses were about $75,000. It was eventually revealed, notes the Montreal Gazette,
that "the man had been in and out of jail throughout his adult life. Crime was his
profession. It was, you might say, his vocation." Three outstanding warrants for his
arrest existed for other crimes. Among the frauds earlier perpetuated by Cherry was
that upon another infatuated woman with him. [ABLEY, M., 4-12-99, p. A1]

In 1997, David Missman and his wife Karen were sentenced to prison for ten
years and probation, respectively, for swindling investors -- primarily Los Angeles
schoolteachers -- out of between $8 and $18 million. Their two "salesmen" were Hank
Springer, a former United Teachers-Los Angeles president, and Nate Glazer. The two
testified against the Missmans in return for immunity from prosecution. [CARDENAS,
p. B5]

In 1997, John Perry, the Jewish editor of an Indian weekly newspaper, The New
India-Times, was charged in New York City for eleven counts of conspiracy and mail
fraud. Perry called the charges "a witch hunt" and sounded out a possible defense of
anti-Semitism from Israel and Jewish American newspapers, and the Anti-Defamation
League. [FORWARD, 5-23-97, p. 8]

In 1995 the former Executive Director, Lester Kaplan, of the Jewish Community
Center of Greater Washington DC, was imprisoned for embezzling a million dollars
from the organization. Three others, including the Chief Financial Officer at the
organization, Jay Manchester, were also implicated. Kaplan could have gotten up to
95 years in jail, but was only sentenced to seven years; he was freed after eight
months. [RIVAS, p. D5] The State Attorney General's office investigated and
prosecuted the crime despite the Jewish organization's decision to avoid publicity
and not report the situation to police. [ZOROYA, p. B1] Despite his record, in 1997
Kaplan was hired as a Montgomery County public housing agency supervisor. "Kaplan,"
noted the Washington Post, "approached HOC [Housing Opportunity Commission]
chairwoman Barbara Goldberg-Golden -- a board member at the Jewish Community Center
-- and asked her for help [in getting a job]." [PEREZ-RIVAS, p. D5]

In 2001, "Montgomery County prosecutors ... opened up an investigation into the
handling of a charity fund at one of the Washington area's largest synagogues
[Congregation Beth El in Bethesda, Maryland], after its senior rabbi reimbursed
$300,000 to the fund because of questions about how he had used the account." The
rabbi, Jonathan Maltzman, "transferred more than $220,000 from the charity fund to
his brokerage account at Fidelity; used $7,950 from the fund for his child's b'nai
mitzvah parties; and used about $11,500 to pay his self-employment taxes. An
additional $62,000 was withdrawn in cash at ATMS ... About $700,000 had passed
through the fund during the 11 years Maltzman administered it, [but] only about
$20,000 could be identified as having gone to charities." [MURPHY, C., 5-10-01, p.
B2]

In 1999, a Cincinnati rabbi, Jacob Lustig of congregation Kneseth Israel, was
found guilty of skimming hundreds of thousands of dollars of profits from a series
of synagogue bingo games spread across three counties in 19 storefronts. "The
instant bingo," noted the Associated Press, "took in more than $1 million in 1996
and 1997, but his congregation received only $250,000 of that. Lustig and his
associates (Gerel Payne, Ralph Lipsky, and Sam Semet) avoided prison time, although
Lustig was ordered to surrender $920,000. The Cincinnati Enquirer noted that "Judge
Cartolano said the lack of cooperation from the congregation, which still supports
the rabbi, was a problem for prosecutors." [HORN, D., 6-9-99, p. B5]

In 2000, the Temple Sinai synagogue in Dresher, Pennsylvania, sued its fired
Executive Director, Barry Wilf; his wife Barbara who was an assistant bookkeeper at
the synagogue; bookkeeper Betty Shusterman; and Shusterman's husband, son, and son's
wife. They were accused of embezzling $700,000 over the years through a bank that
was also named in the suit. [FELDMAN, S., 5-4-2000, p. 9]

In 1999 too, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that "the Jewish community
in Poland is being wracked by a scandal that has forced the country's umbrella
Jewish organization to fire its treasurer and downgrade the status of the Jewish
communities of Gdansk and Poznan ... Jewish organizations tried to keep the affair
quiet." [GRUBER, R., p. 9] That same year, Wolfgang Schnur, founder of the
"Democratic Awakening" political party and "a leader of the democracy movement that
toppled communism in East Germany 10 years ago," was "detained on fraud charges
after trying to cash phony securities at a Berlin bank." An Israeli accomplice
escaped. [AP, Former]

In 1997, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency noted a common theme in Germany:

"Jewish community elections in Germany are rarely covered in the German
media. But the upcoming election in Berlin on June 1 has catapulted the city's
Jewish community into the national media spotlight. The stories center on real
estae scandals, alleged financial mismanagement of community funds and
embittered personal rivalries among community officials. The reports ...
cast a shadow on the integrity of some leading members of Germany's
largest Jewish community ... Jewish leaders worry that if the negative
publicity continues, it could weaken community structures and damage
the political influence of Berlin's Jewish community in the German capital."
[BERGER, D., 6-30-97]

Also in 1999, Reform Rabbi Fred Neulander, of Congregation M'Kor Shalom, the
largest synagogue in southeastern New Jersey, was indicted for the 1994 contract
murder of his wife. "The subsequent investigation into her murder," noted the Jewish
Exponent, "brought to light her husband's involvement in several extramarital
affairs." [SILVERSTEIN, p. 15] Later stepped forward an embittered man, Myron Lewin,
who also claimed that Rabbi Neulander had also "cheated me" in Levin's purchase of a
$16,000 Torah. [AP, 12-19-98] Somewhat similarly, in 1993, a Jewish author, Michele
Samit, wrote an entire book (subtitled The True Story a Rabi's Deadly Affair) about
a major sordid scandal in her own synagogue congregation in metropolitan Los
Angeles. The husband (Mel Green) of the president (Anita Green) of Reform temple
Shir Chadash arranged for her to be murdered when she had and affair with center's
rabbi, Steven Jacobs, and left her husband. This case, writes Samit, "was the stuff
of tabloids and miniseries: a shooting, rumors of sex between two spiritual leaders
in the temple setting, accusations, criminal charges, and people lying on the
witness stand to save their reputations ... The Los Angeles Jewish community prides
itself on its high values, moral superiority and insularity. My temple leaders and
members seemed to worry more about this reputation than about what had happened."
[SAMIT, M., 1993, p. xxi, xxiii] The victim's mother was outraged that the rabbi
seemed to care more about his reputation than his ex-lover: "When the detective told
us how to handle the press, and that the police would make all the statements, the
rabbi went crazy. He said, 'There can't be any statements. I want to keep a low
profile. This can't get out to the press. I'm a rabbi.' All he cared about was
himself. He didn't want there to be an arrest or a trial if his name would come up.
It made me sick." [SAMIT, M., 1993, p. 210]

In 1992, another rabbi, Austin Yoncy Feld, and his brother were held in a San
Francisco-area jail on charges that they planned to murder a Palo Alto child
psychiatrist, Saul Wasserman, and his wife. Recently arrived from Jerusalem, police
found in the rabbi's car "six plastic handcuffs, two knives, ski masks, detailed
floor plans of the house, photographs of the Wassermans, a key to every door in the
house, a bouquet of flowers and the location of a shotgun in the house." Police
suspected the plan was motivated by the Wasserman's daughter, a student in Israel,
who accused her parents of sexually molesting her when she was a child. [MCCABE, M.,
p. A25]

Looking more deeply into the American Jewish Committee's Jewish self-described
"tradition, experience, and values," we can find some very prominent Jewish
organizations seemingly going out of their way to try to affirm the classical
stereotype that Jews are addicted to money at any moral cost. We have seen already
the likes of Ivan Boesky as the chairman of the New York City United Jewish Appeal
for two years during his illegal hoarding of tens of millions, and World Jewish
Congress President Edgar Bronfman whose family fortune (Seagram's) was built upon
illegal alcohol smuggling from Canada (including a deal with major Jewish mobster
Meyer Lansky) to the United States during Prohibition. "Though the Bronfmans," says
Dennis McDougal, "denied any complicity in the transport of their wares across the
U.S. border during the Prohibition, notable gangsters like Abner 'Longie' Zwillman
and New York Mafia 'Prime Minister' Frank Costello admitted to the Kefauver
Committee that a steady stream of whisky flowed out of Bronfman distilleries and
into millions of dry American mouths." [MCDOUGAL, p. 144] (Among many other
charitable donations to Jewish organizations, the Bronfman family donated a million
dollars for a new wing of the Israel Museum in 1962).

Of course there is also the prominent philanthropist Annenberg family fortune,
at least partially based in underworld links decades earlier, and (the later to be
discussed) common connections between Jewish-dominated Hollywood and the criminal
underworld there. "U.S. smugglers, conmen, and thieves couldn't seem to get enough
of the movies and the stars during the first half of the century." [MCDOUGAL, p.
145-146] Then there is Robert Maxwell, the corrupt Jewish/British businessman who
manipulated what later became known as "colossal swindles of a particularly nasty
kind" [GROSS, p. 380-381, see earlier] who in 1991 went to Israel's Holocaust
memorial center to be bestowed Yad Vashem’s "Remembrance Award" for his "dedication
to Yad Vashem and all it stands for." [AXELROD, T., p. 41] Seven months after
Maxwell's death, his two sons and an American associate, Larry Trachtenberg,
formerly a lecturer at the London School of Economics, were arrested in England on
charges of fraud and theft of $250 million. A Washington Post article did not
mention their ethnicity, but patriarch Robert Maxwell was described as a "Czech
[who] arrived in Britain after World War II almost penniless and made himself one of
Britain's biggest media tycoons." [MACASKILL, p. A31]

Elsewhere, in 1995, the largest non-Orthodox Jewish high school in America
(located in Los Angeles) raised eyebrows when it renamed itself "Milken High" after
a $5 million donation from the Milken Family Foundation. The high school is part of
a new multi-million dollar "cultural and artistic showplace" complex which includes
the Skirball Museum. Principal Bruce Powell qualified the new high school name,
insisting that it was technically named after the "Milken Family Foundation," and
not the convicted felon. Powell also told the Los Angeles Times that, besides, he
believed Michael Milken was "tried and convicted in the press by innuendo and a
politically ambitious prosecutor." [DART, p. B9] "We feel [the Milken High School
name] is a non-issue," Shoshana Hirsh, planning director of the San Fernando Jewish
Alliance, told the Times. After all, another Jewish complex -- the West Valley
Jewish Center in West Hills, California -- already opened in 1987 -- in the midst of
Michael Milken's financial scams -- as the Bernard Milken campus, named after
Michael's father.

In 1991, Thomas and Joseph Gambino, sons of deceased Mafia leader Carlo
Gambino, and recognized organized crime figures in their own right, donated $2.3
million to the Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Tom was at the time under federal
investigation for racketeering, extortion, loan-sharking, and murder charges. Joe
was indicted a few months earlier for extortion and restraint of trade. Hospital
officials announced a new facility to be named the Gambino Medical and Science
Foundation Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit. "No amount of money these men give,"
complained one disgusted hospital trustee, "can offset the damage this incident is
doing to the hospital's reputation." [BRUNING, p. 15]

In 1958 media mogul Walter Annenberg proposed to fund what he called the "M.L.
Annenberg School of Communications" at the University of Pennsylvania, named in
honor of his father, Moses, a man who built the Annenberg fortune in association
with a variety of criminal underground figures, including mobster Meyer Lansky. John
Cooney writes that:

"There had been a loud opposition from faculty members who objected
to Penn's honoring a man of Moses' past. Moreover, many faculty
members believed that Annenberg wanted to retain control over the
school by appointing faculty members himself, a situation they
considered intolerable." [COONEY, p. 282]

In 1985 Myron Goodman and his brother-in-law Mordechai Weissman merited an
entire volume about the moral fiascos in their company called OPM (The OPM Scandal
and the Seduction of the Establishment). Founded in 1971, OPM became the largest
purchaser of IBM equipment for their computer leasing company. Clients included
AT&T, American Express, Rockwell, Occidental Petroleum, and many others.

In 1980 Goodman and Weissman were found guilty and sentenced to 10-12 years in
prison for check kiting, conspiracy, and mail and wire fraud. The company
fraudulently obtained nearly $200 million from lenders. Other OPM officials found
guilty of criminal actions in the case included Allen Ganz, Manny Friedman, Stephen
Lichtman, and Jeffrey Resnick. Kickbacks also went to Jewish executives at
Montefiore Hospital (Harry Weiss) and American Express (Martin Shulman). [GANDOSSY,
p. 32] OPM employed 17 Goodman/Weissman relatives.

"Both Goodman and Weissman were Orthodox Jews," notes Robert Gandossy, "who
practiced Jewish dietary laws and refrained from work and travel on the Sabbath. A
mezuzah [a Jewish religious artifact] hung on every office door at OPM ...
Weissman's faith was so strong that he left OPM in 1973 to fight in the Israeli war
in the Middle East." [GANDOSSY, p. 20] Not surprisingly, Goodman also "gave away
millions to charitable organizations, particularly those with Jewish affiliations."
[GANDOSSY, p. 20] This included $1 million to Yeshiva University, where he was
elected to be a board member.

In 1996, officials at Beth Israel Hospital and the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center
for the Aged wrote testimonial letters on behalf of Jewish philanthropist Simon
Fireman to help keep him out of jail. Fireman, Hebrew Rehab's Man of the Year in
1996, (he funded their "Fireman Pavilion" a year earlier) faced a federal court and
74 counts of conspiracy to hide $120,000 in illegal political campaign
contributions. [GELBWASSER, p. 5]

In 1999 Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottleib, co-founders of the giant theatre
producer Livent, Inc. (the organization behind popular musicals like Showboat,
Ragtime, and Kiss of the Spider Woman) were arraigned for 16 charges of conspiracy
and securities fraud in Manhattan. "Some individuals and groups in the non-profit
sector," noted the Ottawa Citizen, "particularly in Toronto's Jewish community, are
evaluating the impact on past and future funding received from [them]." [MAROTTE,
B., p. E3]

In 1997, Roy Rosenbaum, the vice president of development for the Jewish
Theological Seminary, defended the practice of accepting money from anyone, no
questions asked:

"Should a charity accept money from someone who may have earned
it by illegal means of any kind? ... I believe that it is appropriate to
do so." [KORDOVA, p. 27]

"There's a difference," insisted Rabbi Stephanie Dickstein in the Jewish
Theological Seminary's magazine, "between accepting money of a questionable
background and the directors of the organization engaging in such behavior
themselves." [KORDOVA, p. 27] This disturbing worldview from a preeminent Jewish
American theology center essentially sanctions any immoral, unethical practice and
any crime if, in the end, the Jewish charity recipients themselves didn't themselves
pull the trigger.

Over the years, notes Robert Rockaway in the journal American Jewish History,
"Jewish organizations and charities did accept gangster contributions, rarely
inquiring as to the source of the money given to them, neither did they discriminate
among donors. [Prominent Jewish mobster] Meyer Lansky donated large sums of money to
his synagogue, Temple Sinai in Hollywood, Florida, to [the Jewish-founded] Brandeis
University, and to causes related to Israel." [ROCKAWAY, p. 237] "Over the years,"
adds Stephen Birmingham, "[Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky] has been very generous to
Israel -- not only with personal contributions, but also by regularly turning over
his Las Vegas hotels and casinos for Bonds for Israel rallies." [BIRMINGHAM, p. 358]

In 1970 Moe Dalitz, "a leading member of the Cleveland crime syndicate," and
controller of the Stardust and Desert Inn Las Vegas casinos, was awarded the City of
Peace Award of the State of Israel "in recognition of distinguished service to the
people and state of Israel." [ROCKAWAY, p. 227] In 1985 the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith bestowed their "Torch of Liberty" award upon him for his cash
support of that group. [ROCKAWAY, p. 227] A gangster associate revealed to a 1947
organized crime commission that Dalitz was in fact the chairman of the Nevada United
Jewish Appeal. [ROCKAWAY, p. 227] In 1982, Dalitz was listed by Forbes magazine as
one of the 400 wealthiest people in America. [ROCKAWAY, R., 1993, p. 37] In terms of
the criminal underworld, he was also known as "the godfather of Las Vegas." [ROEMER,
p. 52] In 1949, Murray Greenfield was a hero to Israel; he was activist in guiding
immigrants to the Jewish state. He connected in Baltimore with the Jewish criminal
underworld through a contact at a local United Jewish Appeal function. [ROCKAWAY, p.
231]

Also in Las Vegas, Ze'ev Chafets notes the story of "a local Jewish madam [who]
had given a talk to a B'nai B'rith meeting. Prostitution is legal in Nevada, and the
madam, a Jewish lady named Beverly Hurel, is a highly regarded businesswoman."
[CHAFETS, p. 101] Other prominent local Jewish activists included Jack Entratter,
who was concurrently the president of both the Sands Hotel casino and the Temple
Beth Sholam synagogue.

In 1973 Morris (Moishe) Levy, head of the musical recording label Roulette
Records, was honored by the UJA music division as its man of the year. [DANNEN, p.
51] "One of the most aboveground institutionalized mob involvements in the [music
industry]," noted Steve Chapple and Reebee Garofalo in 1977, "was suggested at
Senate hearings in 1973, during the testimony of Gerland Zelmanowitz, a Mafia
financier turned informer who said Angelo 'Gyp' DeCarlo, a New Jersey Mafioso, and
Tommy Eboli..., another top-level mobster shot and killed in New York, were partners
in Roulette Records. The label's president, Morris Levy, says the mob was never in
Roulette, but acknowledged Mafia money in Promo Records, which he used to share with
Eboli." [CHAPPLE, p. 230]

In roasting Levy at the UJA dinner in his honor, Joe Smith, the head of Elektra
records, told the crowd, "The thought of coming up to honor Morris Levy and to
introduce him and say something complimentary about this crowd here tonight, is the
most difficult assignment I've ever faced.... [There are] two things all these
ladies and gentlemen on the dais have in common: They cheated everybody every time
they could. And they are the biggest pain in the ass to be around." [DANNEN, p. 51]
Turning to address a friend of Levy's in the audience, Hy Weiss, the founder of the
Old Town record label, Smith said, "Hymie was assigned not to the table, but to room
328 where he's gonna line up the hookers for a party afterwards." [DANNEN, p. 51-52]
"There was laughter and applause to these remarks," says Fred Dannen. "I was the
payola [bribe] king of New York," said Weiss later, "Payola was the greatest thing
in the world. You didn't have to go out to dinner with someone and kiss their ass.
Just pay them, here's the money, play the record, fuck you." [DANNEN, p. 51-52] In
1988 Morris Levy was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to commit extortion.

In 1982 Roy Cohn (who rose to fame as the right-hand man of Senator Joe
McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunt purges in the 1950s) was honored at a State of
Israel Bond "testimonial dinner" sponsored by the B'nai B'rith Banking and Finance
Lodge. Cohn was awarded the City of Peace Award "for his ongoing advocacy of
American economic and political support of Israel." [JEWISH WEEK, 4-15-83, p. 44]
Cohn had earlier been honored by the Jewish National Fund and the Federation of
Jewish Philanthropies. Cohn was once disbarred from the practice of law for a year
and a half for stealing from a client (this client, Lewis Rosentiel, head of the
giant Schenley alcohol fortune and a prominent philanthropist for Jewish-founded
Brandeis University, was also known to have been involved with the mob); [SUMMERS,
A., 1993, p. 248] over a ten year period Cohn was also acquitted in three separate
trials involving obstruction of justice, perjury, a stock-swindle scheme, bribery,
conspiracy, and filing false documents. "At these trials," notes Thomas Maier, "the
testimony revealed some of Cohn's friends and associates included such underworld
figures as Moe Dalitz, ... a man described by authorities as an 'under boss' to
Mafia chieftain Vito Genovese; and Meyer Lansky, the Miami gangster." [MAIER, p.
98] (Cohn's uncle, Bernie Marcus, head of the Bank of the United States, even spent
time in prison. Why? "The WASP establishment," says Cohn, "went after the Bank of
the United States with a vengeance that was pure in its anti-Semitism.") [ZION, S.,
1988, p. 24]

In Miami also, noted Robert Friedman in 2000, "until recently the ringleader of
the Russian mob in South Florida," Ludwig Fainberg has held "numerous fundraisers
.. for Jewish charities at a restaurant and nightclub he owns called Babushka."
[FRIEDMAN, R., 4-10-00]

In 2001, President Bill Clinton found himself in another scandal when he
pardoned Jewish American fugitive Marc Rich, wanted since 1983 on "51 counts of tax
evasion, racketeering and violating sanctions against trade with Iran." New York
mayer Rudolph Giuliani notes that Rich's crimes included "the biggest tax evasion
case in United States history." Rich "was also charged with a complex oil scam that
exploited America's energy crisis in the early '80s. The 65-count indictment claimed
he had secretly bought up millions of barrels of Texas crude oil then under strict
price controls and relabeled the oil as decontrolled supplies, ultimately selling it
on the open market for huge profits -- reportedly $100 million. And while 52
Americans were held hostage in Iran, Rich's company allegedly made another fortune
by trading with the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime in violation of a strict American
trade embargo." [DAWSON, P., 2-12-01]

As a fugitive, Rich the wanted criminal had given over $70 million to Israeli
causes. Hence, as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency noted about massive international
Jewish lobbying efforts to get the pardon:

"The Rich case puts an uncomfortable spotlight on the many Jewish and Israeli
causes, like Birthright Israel [which sends young Jewish Americans to Israel],
that Rich supported. Indeed, a New York Times article noted that the list of
people who wrote letters [to Clinton] supporting Rich's pardon is 'a virtual
Who's Who of Israeli society and Jewish philanthropy.'" [WIENER, J., 2-9-01]

These included Rabbi Irving Greenberg, head of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial
Council, who asked Clinton, on Rich's behalf, to do "one of the most Godlike actions
that anyone can ever do." "Rich has given to a variety of major institutions in
Israel," noted the JTA. [WIENER, J., 2-9-01]
As Jewish commentator Ben Stein lamented:

"The really embarrassing moral disgrace attaches itself to, first, the chairman
of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council, Rabbi Irwin Greenberg, who wrote
Clinton urging a pardon for Rich, and to Ehud Barak, who while prime
minister of Israel likewise solicited Clinton ... It's part of the thinking
about
the Holocaust that whatever is thought bad by Holocaust experts -- such
as Greenberg -- is bad, and whatever is thought good is good. To spend
such moral capital to get a pardon for Rich is disgusting. To think that
the pity Americans feel for the Holocaust dead and survivors should be
manipulated to aid a man accused of trading with America's enemies for
profit is revolting." [STEIN, B., 2-14-01, p. 15A]

Israeli commentator Ze'ev Chafets was also shamed to comment about the
international Jewish lack of morals in the effort to secure pardoning of such a
corrupt man:

"The effort of Rich's strategists to turn their client into a modern day
Alfred
Dreyfus [a famous French Jew who was falsely tried for disloyalty] --
with the active connivance of some of the world's most prominent Jewish
personalities and institutions -- is a scandal in its own right ... [Abraham]
Foxman is the national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai|
B'rith, America's most prestigious Jewish group. He wrote an official ADL
letter to Clinton, asking him to pardon Rich. I called the ADL to ask why
its director had intervened with the President of the United States on
behalf of a master swindler and member in good standing of the FBI's
most wanted list.
'Humanitarian reasons,' a spokeswoman told me.
What possible humanitarian reason, I wondered, could there be to pardon
a billionaire who lives in a Swiss castle and flies around the world in his
own jet? And what did a crook like Rich have to do with the ADL? ...
As for Foxman, Greenberg and other so-called American Jewish leaders,
they prostituted themselves and their organizations for a rich criminal ...
Foxman's not alone. Led by a Tel Aviv-based former Mossad agent
named Avner Azulay, the Rich team put together a Jewish who's who
of supporters. They got their client character references from famous
rabbis like Shlomo Riskin; from Rabbi Irving Greenberg, chairman of
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Counci; from the chief rabbi of France;
from the directors of a half-dozen Israeli hospitals, and from Marlene
Post, former head of Hadassah [the women's Zionist organization].
Rich also received active support from former Israeli Prime Minister
Shimon Peres; Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg; Israeli Foreign
Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami; ex-Ambassador to Washington Itamar
Rabinovich; former Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek; the current
mayor, Ehud Olmert, and dozens of other Israeli politicians ...
By participating in what appears to be an international conspiracy, they
have given life to a classic anti-Semitic fantasy and earned themselves
a place on the Anti-Defamation League's list of enemies of the Jewish
people." [CHAFETS, Z., 2-15-01, p. 51]

It was even eventually revealed that Abraham Foxman, director of perhaps the
best-known Jewish organization, the Anti-Defamation League, a powerful enforcer of
self-defined public morals (particularly against what it defines as "anti-Semitism")
and ardent defender of Israel, had accepted a $100,000 donation to ADL from Marc
Rich shortly before Foxman wrote his letter to Clinton in behalf of the criminal.
"The ADL," noted the New York Post, "that Foxman and Rich's Israeli representative,
former Mossad agent Avner Azulay, met in Paris last February to discuss ways to
resolve Rich's legal problems." ADL spokesperson Myra Shinbaum declared that the ADL
("which annually budgets $50 million to fight anti-Semitism") wouldn't be returning
the money. [BLOMQUIST, B., 3-24-01]

In 1994, in the (Jewish) Forward's list of the most important Jewish American
leaders, Shoshana Cardin was noted as "chief of staff of American Jewry" and "past
chairman of almost everything," from the United Jewish Appeal to the National Jewish
Center for Learning and Leadership. The Forward also noted that she "stood by her
husband [Jerome Cardin] with dignity when he went to prison for his role in a
Maryland savings-and-loan scandal." [FORWARD, p. 11-18-94, p. 11] Cardin was
released from prison early for medical reasons, but an associate -- Jeffrey Levitt
-- spent seven years behind bars.

Levitt, who was active in Jewish charities which fueled his "concurrent rise
in Baltimore's Jewish community," was well known in the 1970s "as one of Baltimore's
most audacious slumlords." [BAKER, p. A1] As president of the Old Court Savings and
Loan Association, he was involved in what one prosecutor termed as possibly "the
largest fraud in the history of the state of Maryland." [BAKER, p. A1] Likewise, in
Boston, as elsewhere, the Realty Lodge of the local chapter of the B'nai B'rith
Jewish fraternal organization (which is the parent of the Anti-Defamation League)
"represented many of the city's Jewish slumlords." [HILLEL/HARMON, p. 185]|

In 2001, Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estee Lauder cosmetics fortune, stepped
down as the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Americans, the umbrella organization for this country's most prominent Jewish
groups. Lauder was known jokingly as the "King of the Jews." That same year the New
York Times reported that Lauder's overseas company, Central European Media
Enterprises, was "under investigation over allegations that it paid at least $1
million in bribes to Ukrainian officials for a valuable television license,
according to lawyers and [U. S.] Justice Department documents." Lauder owned
Ukraine's best-known TV station, Studio 1+1, with Jewish crime lords Vadim
Rabinovich and Boris Fuchsmann, who, although "known around Kiev for their influence
and welath," were "less well known [for] their ties to Russian organized crime,
according to reports by the F.B.I. and European law enforcement agencies." [BONNER,
R., 6-12-01]

In 1995, Jeanette Nelson and her husband Victor Incenty (honorary
co-chairpersons of an American Jewish Committee tribute to the conductor of the
Florida Symphony Orchestra) were arrested for an "alleged scam to cheat thousands of
investors out of $170 million." [DOUGLAS, R., 5-26-95, p. B6] Vincenty's company,
Cascade International, had made Fortune magazine's 1989 list of "companies to
watch." Also in Florida, in 1998, Phillip Scott Plotka was noted to have

"the resume of a prominent insurance agent ... In 1996 he received the Quality
of
Life Winner award by the Million Dollar Roundtable Foundation. He serves on the

board of Jewish Vocational Services and on a professional advisory
committee for the insurance industry ... But Wednesday, Plotka gained a
different sort of notoriety. He became the first agent arrested in Miami-Dade
county
on charges of insurance fraud solicited through the Internet ... The Florida
Department of Insurance said he solicited clients with the AIDS virus and
instructed them to falsify insurance appications so they would be accepted ...
'This is a particularly onerous case because the individual is a highly
regarded
individual in his field,' [Dade Assistant State Attorney Mark] Shapiro said.
'He
sits on an ethics committee." [ACLE, A., 5-7-98]

In Canada, in 1989, Patricia Starr

"was facing revelations in the Toronto media that she had channeled
more than $82,000 of charitable funds from the local branch of the
National Council of Jewish Women, of which she was president, to
Liberal and Conservative politicians and to Liberal activists. The Federal
Income Tax Act prohibited charities from making such contributions,
and Ontario legislation limits the size of individual donations that a
politician can accept." [KAIHLA, p. 12]

Starr also pleaded guilty to lying to receive an unwarranted $357,000 from
the local government for her Jewish organization, of which she personally stole
$33,000. [BRENT, p. A1] The National Council of Jewish Women itself faced 22 court
charges for various legal infractions; they were dropped, however, because -- in the
words of the government prosecutor: "It would have been like having the same trial
[as Starr's] all over again. I don't think that would serve the public interest."
[DEVERELL, p. A3]

In 1998, the National Jewish Council of Jewish Women made the news again, this
time in Denver, where its treasurer of 14 years, Ellen Bloch, was found to have
embezzled over $150,000. [SORAGHAN, p. B12] In England, that same year, the
(London) Independent headlined a story "Chief Rabbi Rocked by Fraud Scandal." Rabbi
Jonathan Sacks is "seen by many Jews and non-Jews as the spiritual center of British
Jewry ... is technically the Chief Rabbi only of the United Synagogue, the main
Orthodox movement with 70 congregations in the United Kingdom." Suddenly he was
"embroiled in deepening turmoil." Police were investigating "allegations of fraud at
Jewish cemeteries in east London" and "the disappearance of highly valuable texts
from a religious library." [KOSSOFF, p. 6]

In 2001, the Jewish Chronicle noted another Jewish cemetery escapade: "an ugly
real estate battle between a New Jersey synagogue and its former cantor [that] has
begun to focus on a larger question of whether congregants benefitted from unethical
business relationships they formed as synagogue benefactors." Harvey Waldman filed
suit alleging that the temple's rabbi and other congregants took kickbacks "on a
profit of more than $20 million" in a cemetery land scheme. [CATTAN, N., 3-27-01, p.
9]

In 2000, Jean Thorbourn, a bookkeeper and financial consultant for the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles was charged with
"embezzling more than $1 million from the institution -- some of which was
apparently used to finance the production of independent films." [WESTPHAL, S.,
3-11-2000, p. B1] In 2001, rabbis Jacob Bronner and Efroim Stein "pleaded guilty to
defrauding the US government of part of a $2.5 million federal grant intended to aid
Holocaust survivors." The two men embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars.
[HENRY, M., 2-16-01, p. 4]

In Canada, scrap metal millionaire Morris Lax was the victim of an unsolved
murder in 1993. Guy Crittenden notes "the closed-shop nature of the scrap business"
and that

"Even Lax supporters don't deny he was crooked (though perhaps not more
so than some others in the business). He pled guilty to criminal charges in the
early 1960's after being caught with stolen brass. On February 16, 1977
he was fined $34,000 after pleading guilty to three counts of falsifying
company records ... Another time police found a portion of four tons of
stolen copper at Lax's property ... People remembered him as an oddball
who was physically filthy and would inadvertently spit upon listeners when
he became animated in conversation. (This was normally Yiddish; Lax
avoided speaking English throughout most of his life in Canada) ... Money
allowed Morris Lax one luxury. He was a prominent supporter of Israel
and, in stunning contrast to his usual crudeness, moved easily in the
highest circles of Israeli political life, counting among his friends Mr.
[Menachem] Begin [Israel's prime minister] (with whom he'd fled Russia)
and Yitzhak Shamir." [CRITTENDEN, G., 2001]

Chester and Morris Waxman, business associates of Lax, built to power "one of
the top three scrap-recycling enterprises in Canada." Chester, the Jewish
community's Man of the Year in 1979, eventually was involved in a 14-year lawsuit
with his brother (who initiated charges) which provided "a veritable parade of
witnesses who have leveled accusations of fraud, conspiracy, diversion of funds,
racehorse-breeding schemes, evidence tampering and bertrayals of deathbed promises."
[CRITTENDON, G., 2000]

"What a bunch of shiksas in here!" proclaimed Bess Myerson, the only Jewish
Miss America in history, in 1995 at the sight of a number of blondes in attendance
at a gathering of the Women's Division of Israel Bonds of Maryland. Myerson,
speaking as a member of the Israel Bonds national board and the board of the
Anti-Defamation League, noted that "my greatest source of renewal comes from walking
into a room filled of Jews." The Baltimore Jewish Times also observed that

"she did not allude to her well publicized legal troubles over the years,
which have included indictments in the mid-1980s on charges of
conspiracy, fraud and obstruction of justice for allegedly bribing a judge
to reduce support payments to her then-boyfriend's former wife. Ms.
Myerson eventually was acquitted of the charges. She was also arrested
for shoplifting in Pennsylvania seven years ago." [SHAPIRO, D. p. 36]

Myerson, a millionaire, was in fact arrested twice for shoplifting. The first
time was in London. Luckily for her, this fact was not reported. At the time she was
the New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner. [PRESTON, J., p. 85]

Meyerson's non-Jewish boyfriend, Carl Capasso, was already married and was
twenty-one years younger than her. Capasso's wife, Nancy, was also Jewish. [PRESTON,
p. 147] His "best friend and neighbor was Mafia boss Matthew (Matty the Horse)
Ianniello." "Capasso," notes Jack Newfield and Wayne Barrett, "was probably the only
cheating husband in history who claimed to be spending his nights with a Mafia boss
(Ianniello) when he was really having an affair with Miss America."
[NEWFIELD/BARRETT, p. 8] (In 1998, Myerson donated money to the Anti-Defamation
League to institute the "Bess Myerson Campus Journalism Awards," conceived by her as
"an important tool in reaching students far and wide in the fight against hatred,"
encouraging "student journalists to think critically about interracial, interethnic,
intercultural and interreligious relations." [STRONGWATER, 1998, p. 4] )

In 1997 the UJA-Federation of New York found itself in an in-house ethical
controversy when James S. Tisch, whose family controls the Lorillard Tobacco
corporation, was nominated to head the Jewish organization. "Morality, ethics,
Jewish law against self-destruction and common sense," said fellow UJA board member
Henry Everett," mandate that it would be repugnant for a tobacco executive to be
cast as the president and role model of any Jewish federation." "On an ethical
level," Alfred Munzer, a lung specialist and president of the American Lung
Association told the New York Times, "a smoking executive is not fit to be the head
of a social welfare agency." [MILLER, NYT, p. B3] In 1994, James Tisch's brother,
Andrew, who was then the CEO of Lorillard, stated in Congressional hearings that the
widespread scientific information about the relationship between smoking and cancer
"has not convinced me that smoking causes deaths." [MILLER, NYT p. B3] "Several
Jewish leaders," noted the Times, "who opposed Mr. Tisch's nomination asked not to
be quoted, saying they were afraid that the Tisch family or the UJA-Federation might
cut off their [economic] support to their groups ... Most of those who protested
said they were concerned about the impact of the appointment [of Tisch] might have
on the group's ability to raise money." [MILLER, NYT, B3]

Tisch was formally approved as the Jewish "role model" the next week.

In another ethical area, in the wake of the much-publicized Anita Hill sexual
harassment charges in 1991, the Jewish Bulletin of Northern California ran a story
written by the Associate Executive Vice President of the National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council, Diana Aviv, and the Director of National Affairs for the
American Jewish Committee, Gary Rubin. They complained that

"sexual harassment is also rife within Jewish communal organizations.
Since the [Hill] scandal broke, we have been inundated with stories from
women who work within Jewish agencies, anxious to share their
experiences of sexual harassment by lay and professional men ... These
stories could be multiplied almost without end. All the women we spoke
with believed that sexual harassment is endemic and deeply engrained in
the Jewish community." [AVIV, D., p. 15]

An echo of this has long been a problem in the psychotherapy and psychiatry
worlds: the sexual exploitation of vulnerable patients by predatory therapists.
Such fields, as evidenced earlier, are enormously overpopulated with Jewish men.
["That vast apparative of putative concern, psychiatry, is largely a Jewish
monopoly." -- Kahn, Roger. The Passionate People, William Morris, Inc., 1968, p. 53
/ "All over the world, Jews are drawn to the profession of psychoanalysis and
psychoanalytic therapy. The 1990 roster of the International Psychoanalytical
Association reads like the membership list of a synagogue." -- Earl Hopper,
Psychotherapy and the 'Jewish Experience.' European Judaism, Spring 1996, p. 17-25]
Rapes and other similar incidents are only sometimes reported by patients who have
the courage to complain to authorities. A 1994 Boston Globe article noted the great
scope of the problem, mentioning the cases against therapists Martin Teicher, Arthur
Reider, Lionel Schwartz, Joel Feigon, Jacob Goldberg, Leonard Friedman, and others,
including, in 1992, "several accused multiple offenders -- Sheldon D. Zigelbaum,
Edward M. Daniels, and Stanley S. Kanter [who] either lost or gave up their licenses
[to practice therapy] under pressure ... Though polls have shown that about 8 to 10
percent of psychiatrists admit to having sex with patients, many experts believe the
actual frequency is higher, up to 25 percent. Many psychiatrists, they say, are not
about to admit to such a clear violation [of therapists' ethical codes], even
anonymously." [LEHR, 10-4-94] Worse, as the Citizens' Commission on Human Rights
noted:

"Although only ten percent of psychiatrists admit to sexually abusing patients,
interestingly, 65 percent say new patients tell them of being abused sexually
by their former psychiatrist. In other words, the 10 percent figure can be
considered very, very low. In fact, in an article from the March 12, 1990
edition of U.S. News and World Report, experts put the figure at more
like 25 percent, or one out of every four psychiatrists. And a 1973 study in
California puts the figure at an astronomical 51 percent!" [CITIZENS'
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, 2001]

This organization estimates that there are 150,000 women "sexually abused by
psychiatrists in the USA." 21,000 try to kill themselves, 1,500 DO kill themselves,
and 16,000 end up hospitalized because of the harm caused to them." [CITIZENS'
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, 2001]

The innate difficulty of determining how widespread sexual abuse is in
psychotherapy is noted by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson: "Imagine attempting to find out
how many men had raped by asking nonconvicted rapists whether they were guilty of
rape." [MASSON, p. 181]

In 1993, another Jewish sexual predator, this one especially prominent, Dr.
Jules Masserman, began making the news. Masserman has been called "the most
prominent psychiatrist in the world." He had a resume of 432 articles and 16 books
of his authorship. He was the past president of both the American Psychiatric
Association and the American Academy of Psychoanalysts. He was also a vicious sexual
predator, one who "admitted that he, over his 50-year career, drugged and sexually
molested female patients in his office." [ROZNAFSZKY, p. 10F] Four women eventually
accepted out-of-court settlements of claims against him. Eventually, a dozen women
came forward to note similar sexual predations against them by Masserman. Former
patient Barbara Noel even authored an entire volume about her experiences with the
therapist, underscoring his control over her and the difficulties in getting anyone
to initially believe her stories against such a powerful man.

For years, therapist sexual abuse of patients was kept hush in the secretive
psychoanalytic community. As Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson noted in 1988:

"[The sexual exploitation of patients by therapists was] for many
years ... almost never mentioned, except in private. I remember
that one of the first seminars I attended when I was a candidate for
psychoanalytic training was given by an elderly psychoanalyst from
Montreal, who immediately informed us that a major part of his
clinical practice consisted of analysts who had had sexual involvement
with patients. He told us ten students that many of us, before our
careers were finished, would become sexually involved with a
patient. Before the [1970s] decade was over, an increasing body of
literature addressed the subject. One reason, obviously, was that
there were a number of landmark cases in which large awards
were made to individuals who sued therapists. There is no sense
in pretending to the general public that something never happened
which is in the newspaper." [MASSON, p. 168]

By the 1970s, for example, the psychoanalytic practice of John N. Rosen began
making the news. Rosen was not obscure; articles about his therapy theories had
appeared in various scholarly realms by himself and others. In 1983, he gave up his
medical license rather than face trial on 67 counts of violations of the
Pennsylvania Medical Practices Act. As part of "therapy," for example, patient Sally
Zinman faced the following outrages:

"Without a word of explanation, [Rosen] and his main aide, an ex-
Marine, tore off all of her clothes except her underpants and began
beating her on the face and breasts (the aide held her down while
Rosen beat her). She was then tied to her bed, still with no clothes
on, and kept her that way for 24 hours under close guard ... [Therapy
also included Rosen] suggesting various 'delusions' to her and
fondling her breasts when they were alone (often the sessions
were in groups), and once even her vagina." [MASSON,
p. 136-137]

[M.T.T.]

In the case of another patient, Janet Katkow, Rosen "took off his pants and boxer
shorts down over his penis and commanded the plaintiff to suck on his penis."
[MASSON, p. 138] This Katkow was required to do "hundreds of times" over a seven
year period. "This is what it is all about, this is when a baby is at peace," he
told her. [MASSON, p. 141] This patient was also forced to lick his anus "and orally
take in as much of his feces as she could, which she did." Katkow was also directed
to have cunnilingus with another woman and have sex with an impotent judge. [MASSON,
p. 144]

Rosen also had "numerous sexual relations" with patient Julia Blythe. Three
other women eventually came forward with similar stories of abuse. [MASSON, p. 145]

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, a former psychoanalyst, became profoundly
disillusioned with the field and notes, in his volume entitled Against Therapy, the
disturbing undercurrent of such stories, that such abuses are part of a perversely
authoritarian doctor-patient relationship that is the foundation of the
psychoanalytic world itself:

"Is Rosen an exception or is there something about psychotherapy,
something in the very nature of psychotherapy, that tends toward
abuses? A prison warden, a slaveholder, and a psychotherapist have
in common the desire to control another person." [MASSON, p. 147]

In late 2000, the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles noted with concern a
number of newsworthy cases of sexual abuse by rabbis:

"For those who look up to the American Jewish clergy, it has not been a
good year. Last week, one of the Reform movement's most prominent
rabbis was suspended from the rabbinical movement for past sexual
misconduct ...Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, widely respected as a
Jewish thinker and teacher, resigned as president of the movement's
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion ... The wave of
incidents is refocusing on an issue that has come into public view
only in recent years. In the past, rabbinical misconduct -- particularly
sexual misconduct -- was rarely discussed publicly. Many advocates
for victims complained that rabbinical associations were more interested
in protecting their members than the people they hurt." [WIESNER, J.,
12-15-200]

Also noted in the article is the sexual harrassment "by the late charismatic
Orthodox leader, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach," a Reform rabbi in New Jersey who
"allegedly hired people to murder his wife," a "Conservative Cantor in the Chicago
area [who] was arrested ... for alleged involvement in a prostitution ring," and a
"New York rabbi working for [the Orthodox Union's] national youth group [who
allegedly] sexually harassed and molested teens." [WIESNER, J., 12-15-00]

In 1996, a Los Angeles Jewish showpiece, the Skirball Cultural Center and
Museum (a $65 million cultural center created by Israeli architect Moshe Safdie and
founded by Israeli-born president and CEO Uri Herscher), named Robert Kirschner as
its Program Director despite his past as the former rabbi of one of northern
California's pre-eminent synagogues, Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco. Kirschner
resigned his rabbinical post there in 1992 after four women (eventually a total of
twelve) came forward with complaints of the rabbi's sexual misconduct, "involving,"
he publicly apologized, "sexual relations outside my marriage." At least three of
the women reportedly "reached settlements with the temple's insurance policy." [LA
TIMES, 11-2-96, p. B4]

In 2000, the Miami-Dade Public Schools district paid a million dollar
settlement to five women, four of them teachers, who charged that Michael Exelbart,
the principal of a school for the handicapped, had sexually harassed them. Two had
been "coerced" into sex, including at the site of "a conservative Jewish temple in
Kendall where Exelbart was an officer." Exelbart wasn't fired, and continued to make
$80,000 a year at another position. [KISSELL, T., 4-20-2000]

In April 2001, Jerrold M. Levy, a rabbi at Temple Beth El in Florida, was
arrested for "online solicitation of a juvenile" over the Internet. The synagogue
had hired him as an associate rabbi in 1992, even though it was known by those
hiring him that he had been arrested on a past sex-related charge:

"Levi mentioned a prior arrest when interviewing in 1992 for associate rabbi
at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton ... [He had pleaded no-contest to ] a
sex-related case involving an undercover police officer in St. Louis-area
public restroom ... Temple leaders decided to give Levy the job anyway,
based on his record as a rabbi, lawyer and member of their synagogue
community."

"He's a wonderful person," said David Beale (the synagogue's vice-president for
education and youth) after the rabbi's arrest, "and he conveys love and Judaism to
all who come in contact with him." During the yearly Purim celebration, noted the
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, "Levy helped lead the service dressed as the cookie
monster." [KRAUSE, K., 4-6-01; HAHN, B., 4-9-01]

Two weeks later, in the Boston area, also in April 2001, Eric Hindin was
charged with "two counts of rape of a child, two counts of indecent assault and
battery, and two counts of statutory rape." Hindin had sexually assaulted and
videotaped the crimes with two boys, one of whom "he was matched with through a
Jewish Big Brother organization." [ELLEMONT/TWAROG, 4-12-00]

In 1981, the four-term (1968-81) Brooklyn District Attorney, Eugene Gold,
"announced he would not seek re-election and planned to devote himself to Jewish
charitable causes." In 1983, he was charged with "unlawful sexual conduct" in a
hotel with a 10-year old girl. In return for probation, Gold pleaded guilty and
would seek "psychiatric treatment in Israel, where he had a home." [NY TIMES,
10-21-83] In 1992, Sol Wachtler, "chief judge of New York state's Court of Appeals,
one of the most prestigious courts in the United States, resigned ... [He was] the
central figure in a scandal involving sex, blackmail and kidnapping threats ...
Before his arrest, he was frequently mentioned as a possible candidate for the
governor of New York state." The object of Wachtler's sexual attentions and threats
was Joy Silverman (a former lover), whose personal friend at the FBI put 80 agents
on the case to nab him. [CHISHOLM, P., 1992, p. 56]

In 1995, Frederick Werbell, a rabbi who co-wrote "a best-selling Holocaust
book" (Lost Hero: The Mystery of Raul Wallenberg), pleaded guilty to "second-degree
sexual abuse" of his cleaning lady. "He sprang naked from the bathroom of his
Eastside apartment, grabbed his 39-year old housekeeper and fondled her." He had
earlier been sentenced to 17 months in jail for grabbing a woman he was interviewing
in his apartment for a job as a receptionist." [BREEN, 7-18-95] In 2001, Rabbi
Pinchas Lew, a Chasidic Lubavitcher (ultra-Orthodox),

"was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges ... after a woman accused him of
repeatedly touching his genitals in front of her. The woman, a housekeeper in
Lew's home, reportedly said Lew had bolted all the doors and that she feared
he planned to assault her. She managed to escape through a back door ...
Lew, married with five children, led religious study and frequently held
services in his home for college students ... Members of the community had
had just learned of Lew's conviction for his part in an Iowa armed robbery
10 years ago ... After the local community learned about [this] incident,
more than 100 members of the local Jewish community attended a meeting
to hear Lew talk about his criminal past. Coincidentally, that meeting
occurred on the same day he allegedly assaulted the woman in his home."
[FLEISHMAN, D., 7-3-01]

Lew is a member of a prominent Chabad family -- "his father was second in
command of Chabad in London, a key post in worldwide Lubavitch." [BLOOM, S., 2001,
p. 265] The national Chabad community stunned the judge in providing the required
$200,000 bond for the arrested and jailed man. This, notes, Stephen Bloom, was based
on the Jewish tradition that "observant Jews are compelled to post bail that will
allow a fellow Jew 'imprisoned unjustly' to be released. Called in Hebrew pidyon
shevuyim, the 'ranson of captives' is a particular obligation of the Hasidic
community." [BLOOM, S., 2001, p. 253]

Lew's criminal accomplice was fellow Chabad member Philip Stillman who robbed
a smalltown popcorn vendor and shot a grandmother at point-blank range after taking
her money. Stillman reportedly accepted an offer from two rabbis to accept a bribe
to accept full blame for the crimes. Lev, despite an original sentencing of ten
years in prison, was merely put on probation. The judge told a journalist that he
was influenced and "impressed by many of the Jews who came [to the Lew trial]. The
courtroom had a significant number of rabbis. They were very intellectual
individuals. "If the crime had stunned the locals [of Iowa]," says Stephen Bloom,
"the double standard of punishment for Stillman and Lev took their breath away."
[BLOOM, S., 2001, p. 255-256] Marion Bakken, the woman who was shot, survived and
was awarded $1.6 million as settlement for her injuries. She has never been paid.
[BLOOM, S., 2001,p. 274]

Secular Jewish journalist Stephen Bloom believes that ultra-Orthodox disdain for
Gentiles contributed to the robberies and attempted murder:

"The attitude shared by many Postville Hasidim toward the locals nourished
a destructive environment of contempt and scorn providing a setting for
Stillman
and Lew. While the Hasids would not encourage unprovoked violence against
gentiles, their everyday us-against-them mentality helped set the stage for two
cocky fellowers to fantasy into reality. For more than a year, the Hasidic
Jews'
imperious attitude toward the Postville locals had stuck in my craw. As a Jew,
I was embarrassed by their take-it-or-leave-it mentality." [BLOOM, S., 2001, p.
273]

In 1995, a rabbi's assistant, Yehuda Friedlander, pleaded guilty to the charge
of sexually molesting a 15-year-old girl sitting beside him, alone, on an
international plane flight. He had also had an earlier arrest for a sexual crime in
1991. A rabbi with him, Israel Grunwald, the leader of New York's Pupa
ultra-Orthodox community, was also accused of sexually harassing the girl. He
remained under investigation as Friedlander accepted blame. According to the
affidavit filed against both men, substantiated by another passenger who witnessed
the incident, Grunwald first fondled the girl's breast, then exchanged seats with
Friedlander, who violated her further as she protested and resisted under a blanket,
trying to sleep. The two men were returning from Australia where Grunwald had
lectured about the Talmud. Later, "about 15 supporters from New York and Los
Angeles," noted the Los Angeles Times, "attended the court hearings chanting from
prayer books as they waited for the proceedings to begin." [BOXALL/KENNEDY, p. B1;
and LOS ANGELES TIMES, 11-1-95, p. B4]

In 1999, Ze'ev Kopolovitch, a rabbi and the principal of Netiv Meir, an
all-male yeshiva high school in Israel, was accused of sexually abusing 19 students
from 1991-1997. The most disturbing part of the case, noted the Jerusalem Post, was
that "investigators say Kopolovitch's alleged behavior was known within the school
for several years and tolerated by the governing hierarchy of the religious Zionist
movement." [GROSS, N., 1999, p. 28] In 2001, a "part-time synagogue sexton" in
Jerusalem was convicted "for sexually assaulting children who went to synagogue to
pray with him ... At least three children were involved, with one, the 13-year-old,
being the son of another synagogue official. That boy was so disturbed by the sexual
abuse that he took up drugs, and the sexton then exploited that knowledge to
blackmail the youth into more sexual intercourse. The other two children were
subject to his fondling, often on the back porch of the synagogue dduring prayers,
in exchange for sweets." [REINFELD, M., 6-22-01]

In 2001, Chabad rabbi Mordechai Yomtov, a teacher at Cheder Menachem grade
school in Los Angeles, was jailed on $500,000 bail for "ten felony counts of
committing lews acts with children ... Yomtov was keeping [three boys] alone in the
classroom and molesting them while the other children were at recess." [FAX, J.,
12-14-01]

In 2000, John Douglas Wynn was arrested for molesting a 12-year old boy in the
spa at California's Palo Alto Jewish Community Center. [SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE,
5-18-2000, p. A18] In 2000 an unnamed young Jewish woman came forward to press
criminal charges against Rabbi Baruch Lanner, the religious director of the National
Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY), an Orthodox youth group. She claimed she was
molested by Lanner on a daily basis for eight months beginning in 1995. [ROSENBLATT,
G., 7-10-2000, p. 9] Lanner, noted the Jewish Week,

"is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant, dynamic and
charismatic educators in Jewish life today ... Reports have continued
to circulate that he has harassed, if not abused, many scores of
teens sexually, physically and/or emotionally, from the early 1970s to
the present ... Those who have elected to tell their stories say they are
motivated by anger and frustration over the refusal of the OU, the
national central body of Orthodox synagogues, to act decisively on
repeated complaints about Rabbi Lanner's behavior." [ROSENBLATT,
G., 6-23-2000]

In 2001, two U.S. Congressmen, Tom Lantos and Edolphus Towns were "snookered"
into defending an Argentine yoga school against alleged "anti-Semitic" elements
(about "50 percent of those involved were of the Jewish faith"). Towns introduced a
formal resolution condemning "discrimination against youga enthusiasts by the
Argentine government. In the resolution he linked bombing of a Jewish center in
Buenos Aires six years ago to a long pattern of Argentine anti-Semitism." As Insight
on the News notes, however,

"The Congressmen may have been snookered by those accusations of anti-Semitism.
Their lofty resolution failed to mention some of the other 'practices' of the
Escuela
de Yoga. According to reports, the learning center, run by a certain Juan
Percowicz, teaches lessons that are 'sui generis,' in that thye involve
practices
that most people would call 'sexual freedom.' There have even been some
allegations of child exploitation, which local police were compelled to
investigate. Since its founding in the 1980s, the school has been raided
by the police more than 300 times. Other charges brought against it include
assault and petty larceny." [NICHOLS/SPUN, 12-7-01]

From Israel, in 1998, 19-year old model Linor Abargil was named "Miss World."
Seven weeks earlier she had been raped at knife-point by an Israeli travel agent,
Shlomo Nour. [USA TODAY, 1-20-99] "The 51st year of the Jewish state," noted the
Jewish Advocate, "seems to be shaping up as the Year of the Sexual Assault. Or
perhaps, more properly, the year when sexual assault is coming out of the closet.
Coming out with a vengeance. In the first six months of 1998, rape was up 22% over
the previous year ... Teen rape, child rape, homo-sexual rape, rape in the military,
intra-family rape, we run the gamut." [MOTRO, H., p. 10] In 1999, an "expanding"
sexual harassment scandal broke out in the Israeli Ministry for Religious Affairs,
centering on the division's comptroller, Yehiya Paruz. [SINAI, 1999] That same year,
the Los Angeles Times noted that "Long a taboo topic, or dismissed as something
women simply had to put up with, sexual harassment in the [Israeli] military is now
openly discussed in Israel, thanks to high-profile cases, new rules and a handful of
crusading activists. More and more women are coming forward to denounce abuse."
[WILKINSON, T., 12-1-99, p. A1]

In 2000, the head of the Defense Ministry's publishing unit, Amnon Tzabari, was
charged with sexual harassment for "performing lewd acts on four female workers in
his office." This followed disciplinary actions against "long-time ministry
spokesman" Dan Weinrich and, in a separate case, the head of the Defense Ministry's
media section, Shachar Halevi. "The situation became so bad," noted the Jerusalem
Post, "that ministry Director-General Arno Yam gathered all senior officials and
warned he was going to uproot the phenomenon." [O'SULLIVAN, A., 9-8-2000] In 2001, a
parliamentary aide to Israeli MK (member of Knessset/Parliament) Ayoub Kara publicly
accused him or raping her. Ayoub is Prime Minister Sharon's "liason to Israeli
Arabs." [JERUSALEM POST, 2-28-01] In 2000, Israel's Transport Minister, Yitzhak
Mordechai, "who deputizes for [Israeli Prime Minister Ehud] Barak in his absence,
suspended himself pending an investigation into accustions that he sexually
assaulted a female civil servant." [REEVES, P., 3-8-00] In 2001, the director
general of the Israel Journalists' Union, Tuvya Sa'ar, was "arrested on suspicion of
having intercourse with a minor and coercing her for sexual favors ... In one
instance ... he is suspected of promising the girl an appearance on the TV channel
for children because of his connections there." Sa'ar is the former director of
Israel TV. [ARBELI, A., 8-15-01] Along these general themes, see also historical
Jewish pre-eminence in the international prostition trade, and Jewish dominance of
the pornography business (in the Mass Media chapter]

Another ethical in-house controversy in the Jewish organizational community --
in this case, involving environmental morality -- arose in Houston when Charles
Hurwitz, a UJA-Federation official, was noted for his role as a majority stockholder
in Maxxam, the company that owns Pacific Lumber which environmentalists were
fighting for its plans to cut down some of the last remaining old growth Redwood
trees on private land in California. As Benjamin Stein notes, "Charles Hurwitz's
catastrophic takeover of Pacific Lumber.... resulted in some of the worst
environmental atrocities of all time against first-growth redwood trees." [STEIN,
B., p. 114]

Hurwitz's Maxxam rules over 110 subsidiaries, including Kaiser Aluminum,
McCullough Oil, and Simplicity Patterns. By 1999, Hurwitz had spent $20 million
defending himself against two Federal agencies, government lawsuits that charged
that "Texas billionaire Charles Hurwitz bought Kaiser Aluminum with money made while
illegally driving a savings and loan into bankruptcy." Hurwitz had purchased United
Savings of Texas in 1984, "raided it for cash," and then let it fail in "reckless
disregard for the law." The failure cost U.S. taxpayers $1.6 billion. [STEELE, K.
D., 10-31-99, p. A1]

In 1999, environmentalists created an activist alliance against Maxxam with a
steelworker union which had begun a strike against Kaiser. "I don't think there's a
corporation anywhere else in the U.S. that's at the epicenter of so many social
issues as Maxxam," said steelworker union official David Foster. [BORRESON, S.,
1-3-2000]

Then there is David Koch. Koch heads Koch Industries,

"a conglommerate with major oil and gas holdings, [which] is the
second-largest
privately-held company in the United States. It is also the recipient of the
largest civil
fine ever imposed on a corporation for violating federal environmental laws.
During
the 1990s, the company's leaky pipelines were responsible for more than 300
oil spills
in five states ... Last fall, Koch Industries and four employees were indicted
on 97
counts of violating federal clean air and hazardous waste laws. Government
prosecutors accuse the company of intentionally releasing fumes from benzene
-- a suspected carcinogen -- into the atmosphere and then lying about it to
state
regulators in Texas. If convicted, the company could be fined up to $352
million." [MOTHER JONES, 5-3-01]

Samuel Heyman owns 98% of the giant manufacturing firm GAF. As Mother Jones
magazine noted about the company:

"Last year, if the Asbestos Compensation Act had passed Congress, Heyman would
have profited handsomely from his anonymity. The bill -- drafted by a Harvard
law
professor hired by GAF -- would have denied or delayed compensation to
thousands
of victims of asebestos-related diseases, cost tax-payers as much as $150
million
a year, and provided 'unwarranted benefits to asbestos companies,' according
to the U. S. Justice Department. As a former manufacturer of asbestos-laden
building products, GAF found itself in a crushing legal avalanche.' [MOTHER
JONES, 5-3-01]

Likewise, in the pantheon of prominent Jewish organization leaders, there was
the case of (the Jewish) Moment magazine's "donor of the month," Bernie Marcus, for
his donation of $15 million to the Atlanta UJA fundraising campaign. Marcus, the CEO
of Home Depot, only weeks earlier lost an Oakland jury verdict of $1.6 million in
damages against his company for "sexual discrimination and retaliation." A class
action lawsuit for $65 million also was settled against Home Depot for sex
discrimination. [ARON, M.] "A trustee-for-life of the Atlanta Jewish Federation,"
notes Mother Jones magazine,

"Marcus says he has integrated Judaic principles into what he likes to call the
'Home Depot family.' For him, helping people understand Judaism is a matter
of marketing. 'I think a lot of it has to do with selling,' he says, 'You've
got
to sell the beauties of Judaism." [MOTHER JONES, 5-3-01]

In March 1998, the head of the World Jewish Congress, Edgar Bronfman, also
president and CEO of the family-controlled Seagram and Universal Studios, was
awarded a conspicuously dubious honor (the Seagram fortune was built to power by the
Bronfmans during prohibition, with considerable collusion with Detroit's criminal
Jewish Purple Gang who smuggled alcohol over to Windsor). "A bipartisan political
group," noted the Financial Times of London,

"launched a new campaign aimed at embarrassing one of the leading
lights of the entertainment business. The first ever "Silver Sewer' award,
in recognition of its 'outrageous contribution to the degradation and
coarsening of our culture and its unswerving dedication to the pursuit
of profit above principle' [was awarded in abstentia to Bronfman]."
[BAKER, G., 3-21-98, p. 2]

Of particular note to the judges was the Bronfman ownership and promotion of
the decadent The Jerry Springer [who is Jewish] Show on television and Marilyn
Manson, "perhaps the most shocking of the 'shock rock' groups." William Bennett, a
former cabinet member in the Reagan and Bush White Houses, decried Seagrams as "the
leading perpetrators of cultural rot" in America. [BAKER, G., 3-21-98, p. 2]
Seagrams is noteworthy for many dubious honors, including the fact that in 1997 it
"started airing TV commercials for its Crown Royal Whiskey in scattered markets
across the United States. The commercials broke a voluntary ban on television
advertising that the liquor companies had imposed on themselves in 1948." [FINANCIAL
TIMES, 4-7-97] [More about the Bronfmans and Springer later]

In 2001, Irv Rubin, head of the Jewish Defense League, and an associate, Earl
Krugel, were arrested by the FBI for plotting to bomb the Los Angeles King Fahd
Mosque and the office of Arab-American Congressmen Darrell Issa. [DEUTSCH, L.,
12-12-01]

In 1997, the United Jewish Appeal went out of its way to shame the Jewish
community by awarding its "Humanitarian of the Year" award to (non-Jewish) media
mogul Rupert Murdoch at a fund-raising dinner that raised $2.3 million for the
organization. Mother Jones magazine wondered about the surreal moral reasoning
behind the award: "The media baron is better known to labor and human rights groups
for his union-busting and for catering to the Chinese government (in 1994 he yanked
the BBC off his Asian satellite network because officials in Beijing were angered by
its reporting on Chinese human rights violations)." [MJ, 9/10-97, p. 18]

"By what criteria has the UJA chosen the worldwide robber baron for this years'
award over, say, Radovan Karadzic [accused of war crimes in Bosnia], or perhaps
Larry Flynt [the pornographer]?" wondered Eric Alterman in the Nation, "... Murdoch
was chosen, the UJA says, for his 'longtime support of the security of the state of
Israel, his friendship for the Jewish people, and his support of UJA.'" [ALTERMAN,
p. 6-7] The Australian-born Murdoch had earlier been honored in 1982 as the
"Communications Man of the Year" by the American Jewish Congress. He was presented
that award by AJC president Howard Squadron, who was also Murdoch's American lawyer,
his guide to visit right-wing politician Ariel Sharon in Israel, and an opinion page
writer for Murdoch's New York Post. [GOLDSTEIN, T, p. 69; KIERNAN, T., 1986, p. 262]
"The Jewish national cause is one that is extremely important to me, to my family,
and to my company," Murdoch told the UJA audience, "... We're also in Israel
[Murdoch has investments there] because of my faith in the integrity and worthiness
of the Zionist undertaking. I have been accused of being pro-Israel, pro-Zionist,
pro-Jewish -- charges to which I plead guilty." [LEON, M., 7-4-97, p. 16]

Matti Golan, a former Israeli government official, calls the massive American
Jewish organizational ring to raise money for itself and Israel the "Money Machine."
American Jews, notes Golan, have

"created a ruthless, well-oiled machine whose only aim is to collect
money and ... will do anything to do so. Every year [American Jewish
leaders get] a higher quota to meet and ... stop at nothing to meet it.
If you can't meet your quota, you're out. The only gauge of success,
the one bottom line, is how many dollars you've brought in."
[GOLAN, p. 65]

In 1999, Jewish billionaire Henry Samueli was presented an award by a prominent
Jewish American organization. As the Los Angeles Times noted this honor,

"The Orange County chapter of the American Jewish Committee will
present him with its National Human Relations Award ... He's happy
to be honored, Samueli said, but he was surprised to find out that a
donation to the Committee was part of the package." [CONWAY, A.,
4-13-99, p. E1]

Even Alan Dershowitz concedes that "Jewish organizations sometimes honor the
wealthy without inquiry into the sources of their wealth. We sometimes do not make
the effort to see what is plainly before our eyes. We are blinded by the facade of
money ... " [DERSHOWITZ, Chutzpah, p. 307]

This worldview, so common in the Jewish community, was heralded as an
emulative value for Americans at-large in 1995 by a Jewish professor at the
University of Chicago, Daniel Fischel, who espoused it -- not surprisingly -- in his
book, Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Financial
Revolution, published prominently by HarperCollins. Fischel's introductory paragraph
to begin his defense of Milken's vast corruption machine deserves to be quoted in
full, as sum of both his book and a widespread moral vacuousness so much at stake
here:

"Why have the 1980s been so uniformly condemned as the 'decade of
greed?' For that matter, what does this disparaging characteristic even
mean? The decade's many critics who pontificate against evils of greed
have seen no need to define the term. Dictionary definitions of greed --
'inordinate desire for wealth' or 'wanting more than one's proper share' --
provide no help but merely restate the question. What is 'inordinate
desire for wealth, or the dividing line between one's 'proper' or
'improper' share? With no answers to these questions, how can we
possibly know when an individual, let alone a whole country, is guilty of
'greed?' And even if we could somehow identify 'greedy' behavior, why
should we care?" [FISCHEL, p. 1]

[Henry]

You realize that a person in good mental health does not choose to spend their time with
hatred of Jews. Normal healthy people have a large menu of productive and cheerful
activities to choose from.
What does it make you?

"M.T.T." wrote:

> WALL STREET, JEWISH / ISRAELI ETHICS, AND THE WORLD OF FUND RAISING
>
> Among the economic fields in which Jews today are especially visible is
> investment banking -- "Wall Street," including interconnected networks of lawyers
> and other legal and economic manipulators stretching deeply into Hollywood and the
> mass media. Since the 1800s the "Old Crowd" of German-Jewish banking families (the
> Seligmans, Lehmans, Goldmans, Sachs, Warburgs, Schiffs, Loebs, et al) had
> predominated the field; a "New Crowd" of Jews has in recent decades taken their
> place. After World War II, melodramatically note Judith Ehrlich and Barry Rehfeld,
> "economic power in America and Wall Street was shifting ... Fresh faces came forward
> as if answering a call ... They were the children and grandchildren of Italian,
> Irish, Poles, and other Europeans who were not of Anglo-Saxon ancestry. But most of
> all they were Jews." [EHRLICH, p. 12] This is not to suggest of course that the
> seminal Jewish American investment firms are today inconsequential. Far from it. In
> 1999, for instance, Goldman, Sachs and Co. stretched across the world to become the
> "single largest and controlling shareholder of South Korea's largest bank, Kookmin.
> [BLOOMBERG NEWS, p. 11]
>
>

--
And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Francis Scott Key

[Henry]

You realize that a person in good mental health does not choose to spend their time with
hatred of Jews. Normal healthy people have a large menu of productive and cheerful
activities to choose from.
What does it make you?

"M.T.T." wrote:

> Across the ocean, England had its own very publicized Jewish financier scandal at
> about the same time -- sometimes known as the "Guinness Four" affair. It was, noted
> the (London) Independent, "the most notorious insider dealing fraud of the
> Eighties," a plot to boost the share value of the Guinness corporation. [BRAID, p.
> 1] On trial were Gerald Ronson (head of Heron International), Ernest Saunders, Jack
> Lyons, and Anthony Parnes. They were all convicted, but each received reduced,
> short-term jail sentences. "All four defendants," noted the Times (of London), "...
> are Jews ... Any attempt to incite anti-Semitism because of Jewish financial
> misbehavior has to be deplored and opposed. But any attempt to minimize or excuse

--

[Henry]

You realize that a person in good mental health does not choose to spend their time with
hatred of Jews. Normal healthy people have a large menu of productive and cheerful
activities to choose from.
What does it make you?

"M.T.T." wrote:

> In 1977, Jewish author Michael Hellerman had his autobiography published. It was
> entitled "Wall Street Swindler." Criminal associates noted that he was "the master
> [swindler] of them all" and "when it comes to the big swindle, Hellerman is a
> genius. He makes us all look like pikers." [HELLERMAN/RENNER, 1977, p. viii]
> Hellerman grew up "in the bosom of a deeply religious affluent family in the heart
> of suburban Long Island" but was "driven by an almost insatiable desire for riches
> and luxury." [HELLERMAN/RENNER, 1977, p. ix] "As a thief," says Thomas Renner,

--

[Henry]

M.T.T (Mentally Twisted and Tormented) M.T.T (Mentally Twisted and Tormented)
People like these hate Israel, Jews and the United States of America

RADIO ISLAM, WHITE RACISTS, NEO-NAZIS, SKINHEADS & groups like NATIONAL ALLIANCE,
ZUNDELSITE, JHR,
WACO MUSEUM, JEWWATCH, PAPUREC, CODOH, DAVID DUKE, DAVID IRVING, FARRAKHAN, OSAMA bin
LADEN,
ARAFAT, KU KLUX KLAN, ARYAN NATION, DR.AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI ,SADDAM HUSSEIN, ARAfat,
TALIBAN, aL-QAEDA,
OSAMA BIN LADEN, MULLAH MOHHAMED OMAR, DJAMEL BEGHAL, ZACARIAS MOUSSAQUI, AYMAN
AL-ZAWAHIRI ,ABU ZUBASYDAH,
SAID BAHAJI, DJAMEL BEGHAL, HASSAN HATTAB, MOHAMMED ATEF, TOHIR YULDASHEV, AMIR
KHATTAB SAUDI, KHADAFFY
JANJALANI , DR.WILLIAM PIERCE, STORMFRONT & OTHER ANTI-AMERICANS.

"M.T.T." wrote:

> In a 1994 Toronto Life article entitled "Con Man," the criminal life of Patrick
> White was explored, stemming from his defrauding of a local newspaper of $20,000.
> "Charmed by White's affable manner, by his habit of smiling when he spoke," and "by
> t

--

[Henry]

M.T.T. has very strange interests!

"M.T.T." wrote:

> In the case of another patient, Janet Katkow, Rosen "took off his pants and boxer
> shorts down over his penis and commanded the plaintiff to suck on his penis."

--

[wies...@algonet.se]

M.T.T. wrote:

> WALL STREET, JEWISH / ISRAELI ETHICS, AND THE WORLD OF FUND RAISING

All this is taken from site:

http://jewishtribalreview.org/22wallst.htm

[jewishtribalreview.org]

Admin Name........... Ron Kelley
Admin Address........ PO Box 42
Admin Address........
Admin Address........ Dansville
Admin Address........ 48819
Admin Address........ MI
Admin Address........ UNITED STATES
Admin Email.......... st...@earthlink.net <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Admin Phone.......... 517675-7781

If we look on www.dejanews.com we will find 290
spam to different usnet groups with address:

http://jewishtribalreview.org/

and with same bullshit spaming usenet:
"Imagine that a Palestinian founded Intel and the number two man
behind Bill Gates at Microsoft is "half-Palestinian" and a
contributor to Palestinian causes. Palestinians have headed in
recent years Compaq computers, Hewlett-Packard, and still Dell.
The head of NASA (retiring this year) is of Palestinian heritage.
Palestinians largely founded (with the Italian Mafia) Las Vegas,
and an important role in its development was the head of the
largest crime syndicate in American history, headed by a
Palestinian. Palestinians also are pre-eminent in today's so-
called "Russian Mafia," and this fact was underscored by a book --
and stated bluntly -- about the subject by a Palestinian reporter
who worked at the Village Voice. By the 1970s, Palestinians owned
80% of all businesses in New York, perhaps the greatest cultural
nerve center in America, and the world. Imagine also that 5 of
the last 8 American poet laureates are of Palestinian heritage,
as were 15 of 21 "top American intellectuals," according to an
early 1970s academic study (and that such intellectuals were
promoted by journals like the New York Review of Books and
Partisan Review, again, founded and edited by Palestinians.
Imagine that Simon and Schuster, Alfred A.Knopf, Farrar Strauss
and Giroux, to begin a long list of New York publishers, are
Palestinian-founded and controlled."

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:stzzb%40earthlink.net&start=130&hl=sv&selm=c996e114.0111271424.2d393a7b%40posting.google.com&rnum=131

Down on this page we will find:
"Copyright policy? The independent web site, Ukrainian Archive, says it
best."
with link to:

http://ukar.org/

Very intresting site...a specialy becouse
Ukrainian are know for Polish for theire
involvemnt in SS operations during WWII.

W.

Copyright policy? The independent web site, Ukrainian Archive, says it
best.

[Amigocabal]

Henry wrote:

> You realize that a person in good mental health does not choose to spend their time with
> hatred of Jews. Normal healthy people have a large menu of productive and cheerful
> activities to choose from.
> What does it make you?
>
> "M.T.T." wrote:
>
> > Across the ocean, England had its own very publicized Jewish financier scandal at
> > about the same time -- sometimes known as the "Guinness Four" affair. It was, noted
> > the (London) Independent, "the most notorious insider dealing fraud of the
> > Eighties," a plot to boost the share value of the Guinness corporation. [BRAID, p.
> > 1] On trial were Gerald Ronson (head of Heron International), Ernest Saunders, Jack
> > Lyons, and Anthony Parnes. They were all convicted, but each received reduced,
> > short-term jail sentences. "All four defendants," noted the Times (of London), "...
> > are Jews ... Any attempt to incite anti-Semitism because of Jewish financial
> > misbehavior has to be deplored and opposed. But any attempt to minimize or excuse
>
> --

> And the star of David banner in triumph shall wave
> O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave! The united States of America

> Francis Scott Key

[Amigocabal]

No wonder they enslave thousands of Russian, Moldavian and other children in Israel.
They need them to entertain their bloody Rabbies!

[Amigocabal]

Judaism permits its adherents to comit any kind of crime they wish. Recently a pederasty
rapist of young boys Rabbi Levy of Boca Raton Florida was tried and sentenced to few
years behind bars. I was amazed how his parishioners gathered a milion bucks in a flash
to defend the son of a whore. So it is obvious that they approve of perversion!

Anybody else, especially a black man charged with the same offence would never see the
light of the day! Rabbi Levy expects to be out and raping in about 18 months!

[wies...@algonet.se]

Amigocabal wrote:
>
> Judaism permits its adherents to comit any kind of crime they wish. Recently a pederasty
> rapist of young boys Rabbi Levy of Boca Raton Florida was tried and sentenced to few
> years behind bars.

same way as the some prests
W-

[Waldo]

<wies...@algonet.se> wrote in message news:3C3DF5...@algonet.se...

> M.T.T. wrote:
>
> > WALL STREET, JEWISH / ISRAELI ETHICS, AND THE WORLD OF FUND RAISING
>
> All this is taken from site:
>
> http://jewishtribalreview.org/22wallst.htm
>
> [jewishtribalreview.org]
>
> Admin Name........... Ron Kelley

In that case, my sincerest thanks and regards to Mr. Kelley!

Waldo

Observer at Large

[Joseph Smirnov]

Anyone who questions the 6,000 year history of Jewish Crimes Against
Humanity.
Anyone who questions or exposes the 53 years of terrorism against
arabs by jews, the murder the rape the genocide the apartheid. Anyone
critical of Jews and israel Suffers from this disease.

Henry, you have no credibility, Go wave your flag, and sing the star
spangle banner as the american titanic sinks along with you.

[Henry]

Waldo wrote:
Jesus Christ himself was a Jew that was concerned ONLY in with the interest

of his fellow Jews: When he said: Cast not your pearls before swine", the
"Swine" he was referring to were GENTILES, non-Jews.

Waldo wrote:

--
And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!

Francis Scott Key

[firefly]

Mishuge HENRY

WShere you get the garbage information, from the JEWS BIBLE!!!!

[wies...@algonet.se]

Mr. Kelley seems to be a poor idiot which
wants to be famous in screenwritnig..:)
unfortunatly none wants his manus becous
is stupid so as usualy Jewish are guilty..:))

W

[Waldo]

<wies...@algonet.se> wrote in message news:3C3E83...@algonet.se...

> Waldo wrote:
> >
> > <wies...@algonet.se> wrote in message news:3C3DF5...@algonet.se...
> > > M.T.T. wrote:
> > >
> > > > WALL STREET, JEWISH / ISRAELI ETHICS, AND THE WORLD OF FUND RAISING
> > >
> > > All this is taken from site:
> > >
> > > http://jewishtribalreview.org/22wallst.htm
> > >
> > > [jewishtribalreview.org]
> > >
> > > Admin Name........... Ron Kelley
> >
> > In that case, my sincerest thanks and regards to Mr. Kelley!
> >
> > Waldo
> >
> > Observer at Large
>
> Mr. Kelley seems to be a poor idiot which
> wants to be famous in screenwritnig..:)

Mr. Kelley, regardless of whether or not he *wrote* "When Victims Rule", has
done a great service to humanity, especially Jews.

> unfortunatly none wants his manus becous
> is stupid so as usualy Jewish are guilty..:))
>
> W

The above is unintelligible. This explains why I choose not to try to write
in Polish.

Have a nice day!

Waldo

[wies...@algonet.se]

Waldo wrote:

> Mr. Kelley, regardless of whether or not he *wrote* "When Victims Rule", has
> done a great service to humanity, especially Jews.

Mr. Kelley is stupid as you..

> > unfortunatly none wants his manus becous
> > is stupid so as usualy Jewish are guilty..:))

> The above is unintelligible. This explains why I choose not to try to write
> in Polish.

not for me.. so explain .. pleas

W

[Henry]

firefly wrote:

> Mishuge HENRY
>
> WShere you get the garbage information, from the JEWS BIBLE!!!!

It came from Waldo's interpretation of the New Testament

[fox]

Trudno mowic o etyce narodu, ktory etyki nie posiada.
fox

Rosh Hashanah 17a.
Christians (minnim) and others who reject the Talmud will go to hell and
be punished there for all generations.

Shabbath 116a.
Jews must destroy the books of the Christians, i.e. the New Testament.

Yebamoth 59b.
A woman who had intercourse with a beast is eligible to marry a Jewish
priest.
A woman who has sex with a demon is also eligible to marry a Jewish priest.

Yebamoth 98a.
All gentile (non-Jewish) children are animals.

Pesahim 111a.
It is forbidden for dogs, women or palm trees to pass between two men,
nor
may others walk between dogs, women or palm trees.
Special dangers are involved if the women are menstruating or sitting at
a crossroads.

Sanhedrin 54b.
A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine
years old.

Sanhedrin 55b.
A Jew may marry a three year old girl (specifically, three years "and a
day" old).

Sanhedrin 57a .
When a Jew murders a gentile ("Cuthean"), there will
be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a gentile he may keep.

Sanhedrin 58b.
If a heathen (gentile) hits a Jew, the gentile must be killed.

Erubin 21b.
Whosoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and will be
punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell.

Gittin 57a.
Jesus is in hell, being boiled in "hot excrement."

Gittin 69a .
To heal his flesh a Jew should take dust that lies within
the shadow of an outdoor toilet, mix with honey and eat it.

Shabbath 41a.
The law regulating the rule for how to urinate in a holy way is given.

Shabbath 116a.
Jews must destroy the books of the Christians, i.e. the New Testament.

[fox]

What are you talking about, moron ?
fox

[fox]

Do you have hiccup ?
fox

[fox]

Get yourself a good doctor.
fox

Henry wrote:
>
> M.T.T (Mentally Twisted and Tormented) M.T.T (Mentally Twisted and Tormented)
> People like these hate Israel, Jews and the United States of America
>
> RADIO ISLAM, WHITE RACISTS, NEO-NAZIS, SKINHEADS & groups like NATIONAL ALLIANCE,
> ZUNDELSITE, JHR,
> WACO MUSEUM, JEWWATCH, PAPUREC, CODOH, DAVID DUKE, DAVID IRVING, FARRAKHAN, OSAMA bin
> LADEN,
> ARAFAT, KU KLUX KLAN, ARYAN NATION, DR.AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI ,SADDAM HUSSEIN, ARAfat,
> TALIBAN, aL-QAEDA,
> OSAMA BIN LADEN, MULLAH MOHHAMED OMAR, DJAMEL BEGHAL, ZACARIAS MOUSSAQUI, AYMAN
> AL-ZAWAHIRI ,ABU ZUBASYDAH,
> SAID BAHAJI, DJAMEL BEGHAL, HASSAN HATTAB, MOHAMMED ATEF, TOHIR YULDASHEV, AMIR
> KHATTAB SAUDI, KHADAFFY
> JANJALANI , DR.WILLIAM PIERCE, STORMFRONT & OTHER ANTI-AMERICANS.
>
>

[fox]

Just for you Henry:

Gittin 69a .
To heal his flesh a Jew should take dust that lies within
the shadow of an outdoor toilet, mix with honey and eat it.

Let us know, if it helped you.
fox

[fox]

Henry wrote:
>
> You realize that a person in good mental health does not choose to......

REPEAT HIMSELF, Henry !
fox

[fox]

What ?????????????

Jezus Christ said to Jews:
"You're of your father the devil........" JOHN 8:44
fox

-------------------------------------------------------------

[czeslaw mr.d.]

Out of the four Evangelists, John was the most rabid anti-Semite...want
some proof? Read all of him (in the N.T.) As regarding John 8:44, The
context is where Jesus rebukes a prostitute's provocation...and not to
Jews per se...

Father CzD

"fox" <f...@forest.net> wrote in message
news:3C407873...@forest.net...
>
> What ?????????????
>
> Jesus Christ said to Jews:

[Henry]

Is this your interpretation of the message of Jesus Christ?
Only a sick mind could attribute hate to Christ!

fox wrote:

--

[Henry]

Okay f...@forest.net the Polish hate monger from Canada- I'll repeat the
message:

You realize that a person in good mental health does not choose to spend their
time with hatred of Jews. Normal healthy people have a large menu of
productive and cheerful activities to choose from.
What does it make you?

fox wrote:

--

[Henry]

For a Polish Jew hater from Canada who quotes the garbage that the Nazis quoted about
Jews:

You realize that a person in good mental health does not choose to spend their time with
hatred of Jews. Normal healthy people have a large menu of productive and cheerful
activities to choose from.
What does it make you?

[Henry]

fox wrote:

> Do you have hiccup ?

No I'm responding to hatemongers.
If you support Nazi propaganda like M.T.T. are you too stupid to forget what the Nazis did to
Poland and Russia?

[Henry]

Fox- I am not the hate monger. You are.

For a Polish Jew hater from Canada who quotes the garbage that the Nazis quoted about Jews:

You realize that a person in good mental health does not choose to spend their time with
hatred of Jews. Normal healthy people have a large menu of productive and cheerful activities
to choose from.
What does it make you?

[Henry]

When people write endless Jew hating posts it's called a compulsion.

For a Polish Jew hater from Canada who quotes the garbage that the Nazis quoted about Jews:

You realize that a person in good mental health does not choose to spend their time with
hatred of Jews. Normal healthy people have a large menu of productive and cheerful activities
to choose from.
What does it make you?

[Henry]

You stupid ignorant liar. Those quotes below are lies. You are the hate monger.

fox wrote:

--

[firefly]

You are sure ,the POPE isn't a Jew too!!!!
If Jesus was a Jew, then I am a Mother Teresa!!!!!

[wies...@algonet.se]

fox wrote:
>
> Get yourself a good doctor.

Tell this to MTT

W

[firefly]

Henry wrote:

>
> fox wrote:
>
>
>>Do you have hiccup ?
>>
>
> No I'm responding to hatemongers.
> If you support Nazi propaganda like M.T.T. are you too stupid to forget what the Nazis did to
> Poland and Russia?
>

THE SAME WHAT ARE THE ZIONIST DOING TO PALESTINA!!!!!

[Henry]

firefly wrote:

> Henry wrote:
>
> >
> > fox wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Do you have hiccup ?
> >>
> >
> > No I'm responding to hatemongers.
> > If you support Nazi propaganda like M.T.T. are you too stupid to forget what the Nazis did to
> > Poland and Russia?
> >
>
> THE SAME WHAT ARE THE ZIONIST DOING TO PALESTINA!!!!!

Oh? You mean Concentration Camps, Gas Chambers and the extraction of Gold teeth from the corpses.
I think not!

[Henry]

firefly wrote:

--

[Paul Abeles]

?

[Amigocabal]

Nobody does a better job at stirring hatred against the jews, than the jews themselves! If they had
to hire a public relations firm in order to create a lie to cover up the brutal killing of Mohammed
Al Doura, very little can be said about Jewish popularity in this world!

[Lech K. Lesiak]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, wies...@algonet.se wrote:

> > The above is unintelligible. This explains why I choose not to try to write
> > in Polish.
>
> not for me.. so explain .. pleas

To znaczy ze zle pan pisa po angielsku.

Cheers,
Lech

[wies...@algonet.se]

Ach.. tyle to i ja sam wiem..:))))))))

W.

> Cheers,
> Lech

[Alexander Sharon]

"Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know: for
salvation is from the Jews"
JOHN 4:22

And for you, Polish anti-Semite that is dwelling in Canada, attached
translation of the above verse in your native dialect:

"Wy czcicie to, czego nie znacie, my czcimy to, co znamy, bo zbawienie
pochodzi od Zydow".
Ewangelia wg. Jana, 4,22.

Alexander

"fox" <f...@forest.net>

[fox]

THIS IS A HISTORY...... FACTS, WELL DOCUMENTED, WRITTEN BY WITNESSES,
POLITICIANS AND HISTORIANS - JEWS AND NON-JEWS.

History in books:

J.Robison - “Proofs of a Conspiracy”
V.Ostrovsky - "By way of deception"
prof.I.Szahak - “Jewish History, Jewish Religion”
prof.H.Arendt - "Eichmann in Jerusalem"
N.Finkelstein - "Holocaust Industry"
prof.I.Pogonowski, R.Pipes - “Jews in Poland”
prof.T.Piotrowski - “Poland’s Holocaust 1918-1947”
John Sack - "An Eye for an Eye"
H.Kardel - "Adolf Hitler founder of Israel"
W.Still - "New World Order"
G.H.Kah - "The Global Occupation"
V.Stepin - "The nature of Zionism"
D.Fahey - "The Rulers of Russia"

fox
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[fox]

I'm supporting HISTORY !

By the way, the main ideologist of NSDAP (Nazi Party) was Moses
Pinkeles, a rabbi from New York, who later became a German spy as well
as worked as a spy for Britain.

Without the support of American Jewish bankers and business people,
Adolf Hitler and his Jewish ministers, generals and Jewish propaganda
machine won't be able to get to power in Germany and won't be able to
build it's military might.

Very reliable and documented history source book based on French
Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Reports:

col. P.DeVillemarest - "Financial Sources of Communism and Nazism"

fox

[fox]

According to Henry:
When Israel invaded Palestine, created totalitarian regime and tortures
and kills Palestinians,....... IT'S GOOD !...... and Henry doesn't talk
about it
and rubs his hands in glory........ because HENRY IS A ZIONIST.

The fact is, all Palestine looks like one CONCENTRATION CAMP !.......
and ALL PALESTINIANS ARE PRISONERS !....... and JEWISH NAZIS TOOK
EVERYTHING AWAY FROM THEM....... even hope.

Jewish criminals have to stand trial for crimes against humanity !

fox
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[fox]

History in books:

J.Robison - “Proofs of a Conspiracy”
V.Ostrovsky - "By way of deception"
prof.I.Szahak - “Jewish History, Jewish Religion”
prof.H.Arendt - "Eichmann in Jerusalem"
N.Finkelstein - "Holocaust Industry"
prof.I.Pogonowski, R.Pipes - “Jews in Poland”
prof.T.Piotrowski - “Poland’s Holocaust 1918-1947”
John Sack - "An Eye for an Eye"

H.Ford - “International Jew”
H.Kardel - “Adolf Hitler founder of Israel”
G.H.Kah - "Global Occupation"
Pierre de Villemarest - "Financial Sources of Communism and Nazism"
Vladimir Stepin - “The nature of Zionism”
Dennis Fahey - “The rulers of Russia”
D.Bronder - “Before Hitler Came”

http://www.jewwatch.com/index.html

fox
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[fox]

From Talmud...

[fox]

Famous people about Jews:

JESUS CHRIST, speaking to the Jews in the Gospel of St. John, VIII:44

"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lust of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is not truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the
father of it."

MARIA THERESA, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia (1771 - 1789)

"Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain
here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest
within the state than
this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and
money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises.
Subsequently they have to be
removed and excluded from here as much as possible."

GEORGE WASHINGTON, in Maxims of George Washington by A. A. Appleton &
Co.

"They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's
armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the
great cause we are engaged in...
It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them
down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the
happiness of America."

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of
1787.

"I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young
nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace,
gentlemen, is the Jews.
In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have
lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have
segregated themselves and have not
been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian
religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its
restrictions; have built up a state within
the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death
financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in
that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine.
But gentlemen, did the world give
it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not
returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on
vampires. They cannot live
only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people
not of their race.
If you do not exclude them from these United States, in their
Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such
great numbers that they will dominate
and devour the land and change our form of government, for which we
Americans have shed our blood, given our lives our substance and
jeopardized our liberty.
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will
be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be
in the counting houses rubbing
their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all
time, your children will curse you in your graves.
Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will nor how
many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise.
Their ideas do not conform
to an American's, and will not even thou they live among us ten
generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a
menace to this country if permitted
entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention.

WILHELM II. German Kaiser.

"A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad
insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where he can do mischief -
even by pogroms, if necessary.
The Jews are responsible for Bolshevism in Russia, and Germany too. I
was far too indulgent with them during my reign, and I bitterly regret
the favors I showed the
prominent Jewish bankers." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, July 2, 1922)

HENRY FORD in (The Dearborn Independent, 12-19 February 1921

"Jews have always controlled the business... The motion picture
influence of the United States and Canada... is exclusively under the
control, moral and financial, of the
Jewish manipulators of the public mind."

Pope GREGORY I ('The Great').

Protested wholesale circumcision of Christian slaves by Jewish traders,
who monopolized the slave trade in Europe and the Middle East and were
widely suspected of supplying white girls to Oriental and African buyers.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 20th century British dramatist.

"This is the real enemy, the invader from the East, the Druze, the
ruffian, the oriental parasite; in a word: the Jew. (London Morning
Post, December 3, 1925)
This craving for bouquets by Jews is a symptom of racial degeneration.
The Jews are worse than my own people. Those Jews who still want to be
the chosen race (chosen by the late Lord Balfour) can go to Palestine
and stew in their own juice. The rest had better stop being Jews and
start being human beings. (Literary Digest, October 12, 1932)

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, French statesman, general.

"The Jews provided troops for my campaign in Poland, but they ought to
reimburse me: I soon found that they are no good for anything but
selling old clothes..."
"Legislating must be put in effect everywhere that the general
well-being is in danger. The government cannot look with indifference on
the way a despicable nation takes
possession of all the provinces of France. The Jews are the master
robbers of the modern age; they are the carrion birds of humanity...
"They must be treated with political
justice, not with civil justice. They are surely not real citizens."
"The Jews have practiced usury since the time of Moses, and oppressed
the other peoples. Meanwhile, the Christians were only rarely usurers,
falling into disgrace when
they did so. We ought to ban the Jews from commerce because they abuse
it... The evils of the Jews do not stem from individuals but from the
fundamental nature of this
people."
(From Napoleon's Reflections, and from speeches before the Council of
State on April 30 and May 7, 1806.)
"Nothing more contemptible could be done than the reception of the Jews
by you. I decided to improve the Jews. But I do not want more of them in
my kingdom. Indeed, I have done all to prove my scorn of the most vile
nation in the world." (Letter to his brother Jerome, King of Westphalia,
March 6, 1808)
(1) Every big and small Jew is the peddling trade must renew his license
every year.
(2) Checks and other obligations are only redeemable if the Jew can
prove that he has obtained the money without cheating. (Ordinance of
March 17, 1808. Napoleonic Code.)

fox

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[fox]

You made John the Apostle anti-semite, because he wrote the truth ?
So, your're just another idiot or ZIONIST like Henry.

fox

[fox]

Do you have problems with understanding His words ?
fox

[fox]

Don't you see Zionist Sharon, that Jesus Christ is not talking about
"Jew" like you,
but about His followers, who through Him know The Father ?

John 10 : 24 - 31

fox
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[fox]

Zionist Henry denies Talmud !
It's very good and it means you can be reformed.
fox
-----------------------------------------------------

[Sandar]

fox <f...@forest.net> wrote in message news:<3C43A931...@forest.net>...

I knew he is a Zinoist from the very beginning when I came into these news group.

[wies...@algonet.se]

fox wrote:
>
> THIS IS A HISTORY...... FACTS, WELL DOCUMENTED, WRITTEN BY WITNESSES,
> POLITICIANS AND HISTORIANS - JEWS AND NON-JEWS.

Quot them what you finnd in them?

W

[wies...@algonet.se]

fox wrote:

> Without the support of American Jewish bankers and business people,
> Adolf Hitler and his Jewish ministers, generals and Jewish propaganda
> machine won't be able to get to power in Germany and won't be able to
> build it's military might.

WE knows... Jewish are very false peopel.

First they took power in Russia, later
they pretendet to be aryians and took
power in the US/Britain, later they
pretendet to be aryians-germans
nad took power in German.

..So German Jewish(Hitler) started WWII with Jewish
in USand Britain and Jewish in Soviet. Later German
Jewish murdered other Jewish in death camps only to
could blaim poor Germans for this.

And all this ONLY for to could today call FOX
a STUPID ANTISEMITE.

They must be pretty clever those Jewish if they could do
all this without to be discover (in USA/German/Britain/Russia)
And imagin all German Arians were voting for this Jewish-Hitler
not knowing that he was Jewish. Fantastic!!!!

And it is not the and of the story. Stalin-Jewish was voting
in UN for proclamation of state Israel, and later the same Stalin
Jewish gave weapons to Arabs(Egipt and Syria) to fight with Israel.

Even today it is very big possibility that Jewish are playing
a vary fals game and that Y.Arafat is propebly Jewish too,
like Osama Bin Ladden end Saddam Hussain..

This is a big possibility that Fox and MTT are Jewish
which are postings a stupid messages on usenet only
to have a reason to complain that there are antisemites
in Kanada and USA.

W.

[wies...@algonet.se]

fox wrote:
>
> According to Henry:
> When Israel invaded Palestine,

In 1948 Israel was invaded by 5 arabs
countries. Palestinians on West Bank and Gaza
strip they should hade own country but never
had a chanse to created this. Not becous of
Israel but Jordan and Egipt. It must be some
reason why Palestinians try twice to kill king
of Jordan.

So .. if you LOVE history buy you some
books you idiot FOX and learn.

W.

[wies...@algonet.se]

fox wrote:

If you take away John Sack

so the rest are realy a special
mixture.. like Pogonowski..
Ostrowski, Finkelstein..

and specialy FORD ...:)))
which belive alsaw in lakes in
earth-stratosfer..and fish faling
from them to the earth...:))))))))

W.

[Arek]

fox <f...@forest.net> wrote in message news:<3C43A5D1...@forest.net>...

Henry tries to hide facts not working for him. He would like you do
not hear passages like this one from "Goldstein explains how Jews
control American policy toward Israel" by R Attwood - New York:
Vantage Press, 1976:

" It really upsets us to see that the Palestinians have been as
nationalistic as Jews. We have a mandate from G-d and Americans to be
so. I never read in any Talmud about G-d's having given a similar
mandate to the Palestinians. G-d, are they unreasonable bastards! Can
you imagine Americans being like that? If Israel annexes New York
State because it is mostly Jewish owned, Gentiles in America will
never become as unreasonable as the Palestinians and fight the Jews.
Well, it's only a hypothetical situation anyway. Why would Israel want
only New York State when it has all the United States?"

[wies...@algonet.se]

Arek wrote:

And how do you explain you idiot that:

- according to you Soviet was rulled by
Jewish so why that were training
togeteher with Polish and DDR terrorist
wich were attacking western civilians palins?

- why Jew-Stalin send weapons to Egipt and Syria

...:)))))

W

[Henry]

The actual Talmud (Torah) is available on the internet- you can check it our
yourself.
http://www.torah.org/

I have read garbage from frauds,perverts,liars and assorted Jew-haters. Allegedly
quoting from the "Torah" and filled with
nonsense about disgusting behaviors of Jews especially towards Christians.
I have been unable to find a copy in English anywhere- but discovered there was a
site on the internet put out by some Jewish
organization that had the whole of the "Torah" on the internet.
Without spending much time at it- it is not surprising that it is nothing whatever
what the haters said.

At first I thought it was full of ancient, long forgotten, obscure verses. And who
knows it might be there. But considering that
violent Jew-haters from either the White racist groups or the Polish newsgroup- who
quote Jesus Christ saying something about
"the Jews are the devil!" or some garbage. If these perverts think the message of
Jesus Christ is a message of hatred they are sick
and possessed with anger and hatred and need of repentance.
Could you imagine someone poring over the New Testament and only- only repeated
stories about Witches or Slaves and say,
"look at those rotten Christians"!

Well- you can look up the facts yourself and put an end to what the haters say is
untrue!

http://www.torah.org/

[Henry]

Never in the words of Jesus in the New Testament was Jesus a Jew hater.
Tell me what corrupt church do you go to where they teach Christianity by hating Jews
or anyone else!

Sorry but if you are full of hatred and hate Jews you cannot be a Christian!

[Henry]

This is a quote from Waldo. He is as fucked up as you are about Chritianity
fox.

"Jesus Christ himself was a Jew that was concerned ONLY in with the interest
of his fellow Jews: When he said: Cast not your pearls before swine", the
"Swine" he was referring to were GENTILES, non-Jews."

fox wrote:

--

[Henry]

Proud of being Polish and a Jew hater?
Same propaganda used by the Nazis under Adolf Hitler.
That was great for Poland and Russia in WWII- eh idiot?

fox wrote:

--

[Henry]

If this idiot Polish Jew hater believes the insanity below he reprsents
Polish education. And that is a shame for the world to see.

fox wrote:

--

[Henry]

Congratulations a Polish Jew hater just like Nazi Jew hater.
When the bombs fell on Warsaw you were busy helping the Nazis eh?

fox wrote:

--

[Henry]

You Polish idiot and liar. I was never a Zionist yet you create myths like most of what you say.
Do you think the world looks on Poles as credible people when Poles like you lie ande defame people and
offer to the world your export of hatred?

fox wrote:

--

[Henry]

[Henry]

This list is available from neo-Nazi groups and White racist anti-American groups like National
Alliance.

[Henry]

If you believe that someone complains about a person being a Jew hater that makes you
a Zionist then you are just another Polish person with no concept with reality. Or
simply stupid.

Do you too really believe that the words quoted from fox regarding the Talmud is in
any way true- it isn't.
But I''m sure that you wouldn't trouble to verify those lies. Is it part of Polish
backwardness or simply so into hatred that you don't care if it's true or not?

Sandar wrote:

--

[dziad]

What do we know about Jesus? In fact, we don't have one solid
biographical notice of the year of Jesus'' birth. The writers, who tell
us about Jesus, the for Evangelists, are not really interested in Jesus'
biography. Thus, as far as concrete data of his birth are concerned,
Jesus entered history almost like a phantom. And we also don't know the
year of his death, he stepped out of history in the same uncertain blur.
We have nothing concrete in hand, only the traces that he left behind in
the religious landscape of Palestine.

jajo

> "czeslaw mr.d." wrote:
>
> Out of the four Evangelists, John was the most rabid anti-Semite.Want

[Henry]

Is this the same Sandar who objects to racism like wally but supports an idiot Jew
hater like fox?

Sandar wrote:

--

[dziad]

Some news from the Dead Sea Scrolls:
In reality, Jesus rejected such hate-filled sayings...as he showed in
the Sermon on the Mount: "You have heard that it was said 'You shall
love your neighbor and hate your enemy' (Matt. 5:43-44) Until the
discoveries i Qumran, no one could make sense of the line of the Sermon
on the Mount. The Old Testament does tell us to love our neighbor (Lev.
19:18), but nowhere are we told to hate our enemies. Since the
excavation at Qumran, it's clear whom Jesus means: Hatred the enemy was
a basic tenet of the Qumran community,

I znowu nastapilo rozdwojenie, miedzy Zydami z powodu tych slow. Wielu
sposrod nich, mowilo: 'On jest opetanyprzez zlego ducha i odchodzi od
zmyslow. Czemu Go sluchacie?' Inni mowili: 'To nie sa slowa
opetanego. Czyz zly duch moze otworzyc oczy niewidomym?' [Jan 10:
19-21]

"fox" <f...@forest.net> wrote in message

news:3C43BDDC...@forest.net...

[jer...@newsguy.com]

In article <3C441282...@mindspring.com>, Henry says...
>
>Polish
>backwardness

Shalom, "Henry".

Could you please change your religious affiliation? Preferably, to the Shiite
branch of Islam?

I hate seeing a fellow Jew being so stupid. So please convert to Sunnite Islam
or whatever and stop giving us a bad name.

Surely - fighting anti-Semites and Nazi fellow-travellers is a great mitzvah.
However, you are not the man to do it. Believe me! You tend to shoot yourself in
the foot, without even realizing it.

Much obliged,
Jerzy Malec

J.M.

[Henry]

I've got news for you. You haven't got any idea what my religious affiliation is.
It is an interesting assumption from your type that if a person opposes racism and
religious slander they must be a "Zionist" or "Jew".
Isn't it amazing that no one would ever accuse the defender of honesty or oppose
bigotry would be called "Polish"!

jer...@newsguy.com wrote:

> In article <3C441282...@mindspring.com>, Henry says...
> >
> >Polish
> >backwardness
>
> Shalom, "Henry".

Heil jerzym!

>
>
> Could you please change your religious affiliation? Preferably, to the Shiite
> branch of Islam?
>
> I hate seeing a fellow Jew being so stupid. So please convert to Sunnite Islam
> or whatever and stop giving us a bad name.
>
> Surely - fighting anti-Semites and Nazi fellow-travellers is a great mitzvah.
> However, you are not the man to do it. Believe me! You tend to shoot yourself in
> the foot, without even realizing it.
>
> Much obliged,
> Jerzy Malec
>
> J.M.

--

[jer...@newsguy.com]

In article <3C443157...@mindspring.com>, Henry says...

>
>I've got news for you. You haven't got any idea what my religious affiliation
>is.
>It is an interesting assumption from your type that if a person opposes racism
>and
>religious slander they must be a "Zionist" or "Jew".
>

And my "type" is?

Btw, if you dislike anti-Semitic schmucks, then you shoudn't use ethnic slander
yourself. Your rantings about "Polish liars" are just as disgusting, as the
anti-Semitic lies about "Jews" and "Talmud".

J.M.

[Henry]

Are they not a large numbers of gross liars who boast of their Polish "pride"?

jer...@newsguy.com wrote:

--

[jer...@newsguy.com]

In article <3C444A80...@mindspring.com>, Henry says...

>
>Are they not a large numbers of gross liars who boast of their Polish "pride"?
>

If you dislike a liar because he is a liar, it is understandable and
commendable. If you dislike a liar because he is Polish, Chinese, whatever -
then you are a schmuck and not much better than the hatemonger you're speaking
to.

>
>jer...@newsguy.com wrote:
>
>> In article <3C443157...@mindspring.com>, Henry says...
>> >
>>>I've got news for you. You haven't got any idea what my religious affiliation
>> >is.
>>>It is an interesting assumption from your type that if a person opposes racism
>> >and
>> >religious slander they must be a "Zionist" or "Jew".
>> >
>> And my "type" is?
>>
>>Btw, if you dislike anti-Semitic schmucks, then you shoudn't use ethnic slander
>> yourself. Your rantings about "Polish liars" are just as disgusting, as the
>> anti-Semitic lies about "Jews" and "Talmud".
>>
>> J.M.
>
>--
>And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave

>O?er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
>Francis Scott Key
>
>

J.M.

[theo]

>
> I knew he is a Zinoist from the very beginning when I came into these news
group.

I knew henry was/is a total wacko from his posts.

[Henry]

jer...@newsguy.com wrote:

> In article <3C444A80...@mindspring.com>, Henry says...
> >
> >Are they not a large numbers of gross liars who boast of their Polish "pride"?
> >
>
> If you dislike a liar because he is a liar, it is understandable and
> commendable. If you dislike a liar because he is Polish, Chinese, whatever -
> then you are a schmuck and not much better than the hatemonger you're speaking

If a Polish person, posting in the Polish newsgroup he is responsible for his
honesty,choice of language and all of the words he is writing. He should be aware
that what he writes reflects on the entire Polish newsgroup. You would have thought
that some honest Poles would instantly condemn a Pole spewing Nazi hate directed at
Jews would instantly jump to the defense of the writer. On the contrary- there is a
large number of vicious dog Poles who are so revolting that I would not reply to-
like OdrzanskiS- who will join in an attack on me like jackals. If the representative
of Poles can describe The Talmud as being reprersentative of Jews by posting :

"From Talmud...
Gittin 69a .
To heal his flesh a Jew should take dust that lies within
the shadow of an outdoor toilet, mix with honey and eat it."

Or supply a list from "jewatch"- I can reply in kind as I see fit.
And if you are so blind as to not see that many Poles in this newsgroup are backwards
barbarians and Jew haters- I do not.
I would and do reply with the same vigor to people who attack African-Americans or
Hispanics. And I would be as severe if someone who would lie and fabricate hatred
against Polish people or Catholics.
I notice too that I have never seen a Jewish site called "catholicwatch" or ever read
a Jew posting "Polishwatch"!

>
> to.
>
> >
> >jer...@newsguy.com wrote:
> >
> >> In article <3C443157...@mindspring.com>, Henry says...
> >> >
> >>>I've got news for you. You haven't got any idea what my religious affiliation
> >> >is.
> >>>It is an interesting assumption from your type that if a person opposes racism
> >> >and
> >> >religious slander they must be a "Zionist" or "Jew".
> >> >
> >> And my "type" is?
> >>
> >>Btw, if you dislike anti-Semitic schmucks, then you shoudn't use ethnic slander
> >> yourself. Your rantings about "Polish liars" are just as disgusting, as the
> >> anti-Semitic lies about "Jews" and "Talmud".
> >>
> >> J.M.
> >
> >--
> >And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave
> >O?er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
> >Francis Scott Key
> >
> >
>
> J.M.

--
And the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Francis Scott Key

[chsw10605]

"Fox" has been doing a whole lot of fabricating and a whole lot of
plagiarizing other fabrications.

CW

"Henry" <her...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:3C440825...@mindspring.com...

[Susan Cohen]

firefly wrote:

> Mishuge HENRY
>
> WShere you get the garbage information, from the JEWS BIBLE!!!!

Hardly, moron, as there is no Jesus *in* the Torah!

>
>
> Henry wrote:

>
> > Waldo wrote:
> > Jesus Christ himself was a Jew that was concerned ONLY in with the interest
> >
> > of his fellow Jews: When he said: Cast not your pearls before swine", the
> > "Swine" he was referring to were GENTILES, non-Jews.
> >
> >

> > Waldo wrote:
> >
> >
> >><wies...@algonet.se> wrote in message news:3C3DF5...@algonet.se...
> >>
> >>>M.T.T. wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>WALL STREET, JEWISH / ISRAELI ETHICS, AND THE WORLD OF FUND RAISING
> >>>>
> >>>All this is taken from site:
> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>>
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[wies...@algonet.se]

Joseph Smirnov wrote:
>
> Anyone who questions the 6,000 year history of Jewish Crimes Against
> Humanity.

> Anyone who questions or exposes the 53 years of terrorism against
> arabs by jews, the murder the rape the genocide the apartheid. Anyone
> critical of Jews and israel Suffers from this disease.

And where come from yours credibility???

You have sam numbers..fact - I have
shoukld we try..ro compare?
Where will you start.. I'm waiting?

W

> Henry, you have no credibility, Go wave your flag, and sing the star
> spangle banner as the american titanic sinks along with you.

[jer...@newsguy.com]

In article <3C445F48...@mindspring.com>, Henry says...

>
>
>
>jer...@newsguy.com wrote:
>
>> In article <3C444A80...@mindspring.com>, Henry says...
>> >
>>>Are they not a large numbers of gross liars who boast of their Polish "pride"?
>> >
>>
>> If you dislike a liar because he is a liar, it is understandable and
>> commendable. If you dislike a liar because he is Polish, Chinese, whatever -
>>then you are a schmuck and not much better than the hatemonger you're speaking
>
>If a Polish person, posting in the Polish newsgroup he is responsible for his
>honesty,choice of language and all of the words he is writing. He should be
>aware
>that what he writes reflects on the entire Polish newsgroup.

No, Henry. It does not.

Collective responsibility and collective punishment, based on ethnicity have no
place among civilized people. Pepople are responsible for their individual
actions, not for actions of their fellow countrymen.

This particular newsgroup seems to be a haven for a whole bunch of anti-Semitic
schmucks and liars, spreading Nazi propaganda. You have all reasons to dislike
hatemongers and liars because they are hatemongers and liars. If you, however,

dislike a liar because he is Polish, Chinese, whatever - then you are a schmuck

and not much better than the hatemonger you're speaking to.

J.M.

[Wojciech K.]

>
> And where come from yours credibility???
>
> You have sam numbers..fact - I have
> shoukld we try..ro compare?
> Where will you start.. I'm waiting?
>
>
> W

Uprasza sie znajacych jezyk szwedzki
o przetlumaczenie tego.
Jest mi to potrzebne do okreslenia
diagnozy i zaordynowania wlasciwych
specyfikow.
WK

[wies...@algonet.se]

Wojciech K. wrote:

> Uprasza sie znajacych jezyk szwedzki
> o przetlumaczenie tego.
> Jest mi to potrzebne do okreslenia
> diagnozy i zaordynowania wlasciwych
> specyfikow.
> WK

Ciekawostka ze ci "filosemici" w rodzaju
Kuby jakos nigdy sie nie zadeklaruja z
przetlumaczeniem skoro operuja nieskazitelnym
angielskim..

W

[Lech K. Lesiak]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Henry wrote:

> That was great for Poland and Russia in WWII- eh idiot?

And I thought you'd never ask...

Russia - The Soviets are the ones who beat the Germans. If you examine
the disposition of German forces on the Russian and Western fronts you
will see that quite clearly.

Poland - It was the only occupied country to resist and actively fight
against the Nazi occupiers from the first day. Unlike those splendid
Danes, for example, who had fewer than 100 resistants during the
entire occupation.

Cheers,
Lech

[Lech K. Lesiak]

On 15 Jan 2002 jer...@newsguy.com wrote:

> Btw, if you dislike anti-Semitic schmucks, then you shoudn't use ethnic slander
> yourself. Your rantings about "Polish liars" are just as disgusting, as the
> anti-Semitic lies about "Jews" and "Talmud".

Nah, that's OK. We're so used to being denigrated by some Jews that it
just rolls off our backs.

Sorta like the constant insults white males suffer at the hands of radical
feminists.

No big deal.

Cheers,
Lech

[Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj]

Henry wrote:

> This list is available from neo-Nazi groups and White racist anti-American groups like National
> Alliance.
>
> fox wrote:
>
> > THIS IS A HISTORY...... FACTS, WELL DOCUMENTED, WRITTEN BY WITNESSES,
> > POLITICIANS AND HISTORIANS - JEWS AND NON-JEWS.
> >
> > History in books:
> >
> > J.Robison - ⌠Proofs of a Conspiracy■
> > V.Ostrovsky - "By way of deception"
> > prof.I.Szahak - ⌠Jewish History, Jewish Religion■
> > prof.H.Arendt - "Eichmann in Jerusalem"
> > N.Finkelstein - "Holocaust Industry"
> > prof.I.Pogonowski, R.Pipes - ⌠Jews in Poland■
> > prof.T.Piotrowski - ⌠Poland▓s Holocaust 1918-1947■
> > John Sack - "An Eye for an Eye"
> > H.Kardel - "Adolf Hitler founder of Israel"
> > W.Still - "New World Order"
> > G.H.Kah - "The Global Occupation"
> > V.Stepin - "The nature of Zionism"
> > D.Fahey - "The Rulers of Russia"
> >

O.k. So one needs to be somewhat more thorough in verifying some of the "evidence"
But how does the accusation that this reference list is available from "neo-Nazi groups
and White racist anti-American groups like National Alliance." a priori invalidate
any facts presented in these sources?

[Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj]

"wies...@algonet.se" wrote:

> .......................................................................................
> http://jewishtribalreview.org/
>
> and with same bullshit spaming usenet:
> "Imagine that a Palestinian founded Intel and the number two man
> behind Bill Gates at Microsoft is "half-Palestinian" and a
> contributor to Palestinian causes. Palestinians have headed in
> recent years Compaq computers, Hewlett-Packard, and still Dell.
> The head of NASA (retiring this year) is of Palestinian heritage.
> Palestinians largely founded (with the Italian Mafia) Las Vegas,
> and an important role in its development was the head of the
> largest crime syndicate in American history, headed by a
> Palestinian. Palestinians also are pre-eminent in today's so-
> called "Russian Mafia," and this fact was underscored by a book --
> and stated bluntly -- about the subject by a Palestinian reporter
> who worked at the Village Voice. By the 1970s, Palestinians owned
> 80% of all businesses in New York, perhaps the greatest cultural
> nerve center in America, and the world. Imagine also that 5 of
> the last 8 American poet laureates are of Palestinian heritage,
> as were 15 of 21 "top American intellectuals," according to an
> early 1970s academic study (and that such intellectuals were
> promoted by journals like the New York Review of Books and
> Partisan Review, again, founded and edited by Palestinians.
> Imagine that Simon and Schuster, Alfred A.Knopf, Farrar Strauss
> and Giroux, to begin a long list of New York publishers, are
> Palestinian-founded and controlled."
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:stzzb%40earthlink.net&start=130&hl=sv&selm=c996e114.0111271424.2d393a7b%40posting.google.com&rnum=131
>
> Down on this page we will find:
> "Copyright policy? The independent web site, Ukrainian Archive, says it best"
>
> with link to:
>
> http://ukar.org/
>
> ..............................................................................................................................
>
> W.
>
>

Folks. This is hilarious! :)
I urge you to browse the referenced page at http://groups.google.com ...
from which Wieslaw is quoting.

But what's the point that you are trying to make Wieslaw?

[wies...@algonet.se]

It is very simple. Those groups are grpups of intrest.
- a idea of racis - whit supremacy. Why then use their
sources and not go to the main source other histrians
or documents - facts.

For example. How can you use Finkelstein if you know that
his references about US-banks/congres are false. He never
saw any documents from us-congres.

How can you use Sack if you know that he has specialy
intrest in Jewish and not in the problem it self.
"Killing Germans after WWII"

So when you read Sack you will think - how terribel are
those Jewish but you never get any information about
Polish and others. Jewish has a small part in those killings.

Ther was (offcial) 14 camps - Morel was only in one. I have
an article from polish news paper which is dealing with this.
Quoting Polish_Germans - they stories. They are not talking
only about Morel or Jewis they are talking about _POLISH_
which were cooperating for own intrest with communists.

W.

[wies...@algonet.se]

You ca not use a intrests groups as a source.
You can not use polish nationalist as prove
against Ukrainians, they wants to cover their own
murdering of ukrainians during WWII and before.

You can use ukraininians nationalists sources talking
about Jewish or Polish - they self were part of
killings/Holocaust.

All those kind of groups are not to trust.
Polish will write about ukrainians murdering Polish
but not about Polish murdering Ukrainians... and so on..

Ukrainian has own as a members of German army so
proving that Hitler was angel they try to prove that
they self were "nice guys".

Of you are trying to find historical truth you must
analize your sources befor you start to use them.

I do not trust Jewish fanatics but I do not trust
antysemits. I do not trust people like Finkelstein
which are leftists and are only after money.(for his book)

For examlpe.. ther was a lot of writing about Jewish
and polish-communism. None until today have seen
all UB material. The only material about this is
a book from 1976/8 which was writen _by_ communists
- the same communists from MSW, wich were responcible
for ethnics cleancing of Jewish in 1968 in Poland.
You can see materials with _only_ Jewish names. Not
becouse ther were only Jewish but becouse they quote
_only_ Jewish and do not qoute POLISH.

W.

[Jake Haines]

By this logic, because Adolf Hitler was a water color painter, all art
must be condemned.

> > > > THIS IS A HISTORY...... FACTS, WELL DOCUMENTED, WRITTEN BY WITNESSES,
> > > > POLITICIANS AND HISTORIANS - JEWS AND NON-JEWS.
> > > >
> > > > History in books:
> > > >

> > > > J.Robison - &#8220;Proofs of a Conspiracy&#8221;

> > > > V.Ostrovsky - "By way of deception"

> > > > prof.I.Szahak - &#8220;Jewish History, Jewish Religion&#8221;

> > > > prof.H.Arendt - "Eichmann in Jerusalem"
> > > > N.Finkelstein - "Holocaust Industry"

> > > > prof.I.Pogonowski, R.Pipes - &#8220;Jews in Poland&#8221;
> > > > prof.T.Piotrowski - &#8220;Poland&#8217;s Holocaust 1918-1947&#8221;

[wies...@algonet.se]

Jake Haines wrote:

> By this logic, because Adolf Hitler was a water color painter, all art
> must be condemned.

and what kind of logic you found there?
not "all art" but HIS art...

If Hitler try to write history it woulf be the
same think.

By the way - this your comments show what
kind of knowleg you have...:))

W.