A smart piece of reporting in the Times by Samuel G. Freedman on the ways in which the New York Modern Orthodox community was the epicenter of the Madoff catastrophe. And pointing out that no Reform or Conservative institution was victimized by the bastard.
Responds Mike Desch: "This is the downside of tribalism. Everyone laments how tribalism leads
people to dehumanize the 'other' but they don't talk so much about how
it can lead us to think that anyone of 'us' would never do us harm."
