Here's Newsweek's piece on the rich holding back on ostentatious spending because it's not cool right now. Almost all the magazine's examples of rich guys would seem to be Jewish: Richard Fuld, somebody Koch, Ron Perelman, Steven Schwarzman, after whom the NY Public library is about to be renamed, he can't still be going thru with that plan– and Michael Hirtenstein.
I wonder when someone is going to do the Jewish story here. What fabulous wealth has done to Jewish values, what Jewish wealth has done to Democratic Party giving, and Republican Party giving, what this era says about Jewish entrepreneurialism and/or cronyism, and… voila, what it says about the Israel lobby. Guess I'll have to write about it myself.
