Eric Konigsberg has a piece on the front page of the Times today about Walter Noel, a big loser in the Madoff tank. Noel lives in Connecticut and is club friends with a John J. McCloy, whose name resonates, and…
NPR did an OK story on Madoff’s effect on Jewish charities yesterday, ably reported by the able Tovia Smith, but it included a line that irritated me no end. See if you can spot my button-pusher in this excerpt: Jeffrey…
Yesterday J Street made an important statement about people in the States who support extremist settlers in the West Bank, and it singled out the Hebron Fund. Well, another organization that does so is the charity that Adam Horowitz turned…
J Street has found its issue, and maybe its voice, too. It’s calling on the Jewish leadership to come out against the Hebron settlers’ “pogroms.” Specifically, J Street wonders why Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents has said nothing….
Madoff was treasurer of the American Jewish Congress. Amazingly: 2/3 of the organization’s endowment is said to be at risk. A deep shame. Clubbiness goeth before the fall.
Two years ago the American Jewish Committee published this report saying that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, written by Alvin Rosenfeld of Indiana University. Now the JPost has interviewed Rosenfeld and asked him about Jewish “self-hatred.” Says Rosenfeld: Sadly, it does exist,…
Adam Horowitz reports: IDT is a telecommunications company based in New Jersey. Here’s a piece about Howard Jonas, the guy behind IDT, in the Forward back in 2002. Jonas is a big philanthropist–to Jewish causes. Interestingly, the Forward says nothing…
Lawrence Leamer has a good piece on Huffpo about Bernard Madoff and other Jews breaking into Palm Beach, FL, society, and says this: For the elite Jewish world, it [Madoff scandal] is a curse of almost biblical proportion. The only…
An amazing list on Clusterstock of Bernie Madoff’s victims. Many, many of them are Jewish. Country clubs, federations, the Jewish establishment. Including of course the Lappin foundation, which was dedicated to preventing assimilation and has now gone belly up. Oh…