tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post2299630176055007958..comments2024-03-27T15:07:31.495-04:00Comments on <b><center>Unorthodox-Jew </center></b> <br><small>A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism</small>: Do You Know Who Your 5 Year Old Is Hangin' With When You're Out At The Kosher Gym?Paul Mendlowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-69449743899941006102009-10-29T03:56:51.804-04:002009-10-29T03:56:51.804-04:00I used to give part of my maaser to yad eliezer. A...I used to give part of my maaser to yad eliezer. After I started to get emails from Suri Tropper the director of Yad Eliezer I stopped giving money to them.<br /><br />She just can go to her mishpocho (Leib Tropper) and gets money from him.<br /><br />There are charities with no connections to rich guys and they need funding as wellTov Dovnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-17721078317268733022009-10-28T16:20:58.414-04:002009-10-28T16:20:58.414-04:00Guilty! Tacoma Judge Could Face Prison Time For So...Guilty! Tacoma Judge Could Face Prison Time For Soliciting Prostitution<br /><br />Q13 FOX Seattle Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:19 AM <br /><br />Q13 FOX News has just learned that a Tacoma judge has been found guilty for prostitution and felony harassment. Judge Michael Hecht may face prison time.Judge Hechtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-7409949997182704382009-10-28T14:38:25.136-04:002009-10-28T14:38:25.136-04:00http://www.rense.com/general2/ark.htm
Mendel Trop...http://www.rense.com/general2/ark.htm<br /><br />Mendel Tropper and Rachmiel Steinberg are perhaps best known for their claim to have discovered a sefer from early 1600s Amsterdam genizah called Emek Hamelech that they say contains missing perakim of Shas.<br /><br />There may be a problem with this. The Achronim in the late 1600s cite a story from the version of Emek Hamelech available then - a story that is remarkable and which at least one rov has been saying he believes is mezuyef.<br /><br />Is this the same version that Tropper has discovered? Is the entire sefer mezuyef or just parts of it?<br /><br />I can tell you I would be highly suspicious of anyone related to Leib Tropper who claims to find chesronos Hashas, or anything for that matter, that no one else has seen before.Bibliophilehttp://www.rense.com/general2/ark.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-8760780921356528912009-10-28T14:25:00.328-04:002009-10-28T14:25:00.328-04:00Chaim and Mendel Tropper show that the apple has n...Chaim and Mendel Tropper show that the apple has not fallen far from the tree.<br /><br />They pay a fortune to lure students to come to them. From the first flow of information it seems that the secular studies department will be weak and it will therefore stand little chance of surviving in far-off LA which is not Lakewood or Monsey where Charedi parenets don't care about their kids secular education. But in the meantime it creates a nice vibe and distraction as Tropper can both funnel funds to his own sons and make sure that he gets maximum benefit from the Kaplan millions, or maybe this is where he is putting the millions that Guma Aguiar wants to know where they went missing to.<br /><br />Their website <a href="http://yeshivasohevshalom.com/" rel="nofollow">yeshivasohevshalom.com</a> is still selling esrogim at this time, but it mainly tries to teel viewers to go to its Twitter and facebook pages. How quaint. But on some blog they push harder, and from the comments and discussions it's interesting to see how they are trtying to do a snow job on yet another gullibel co-hort that Tropper has not yet fully exploited the naive teenager market.<br /><br />In their own words on a blog called <a href="http://orthonomics.blogspot.com/2009/09/public-service-annoucement-affordable.html" rel="nofollow">"Orthonomics"</a>, "A blog dedicated to examining the economic and auxilary issues in the Orthodox community" sounds odd, but here goes:<br /><br />"Wednesday, September 02, 2009<br /><b>Public Service Annoucement: Affordable Los Angeles Yeshiva Alternative</b><br /><br />There is a fantastic new Yeshiva high school program – Yeshivas Ohev Shalom – that is opening up for this fall (starting Sept. 8). It is being run by my brother Rabbi Chaim Tropper (former menahel and rebbe at Yeshivas Ner Aryeh in the Valley), and Rabbi Rachmiel Steinberg who taught at Yavneh for many years and who is well known throughout LA as a rebbe and a top secular teacher (currently a candidate to receive his doctorate in education).<br /><br />The Yeshiva will have a fully structured limudei kodesh morning program, starting with Shacharis at 8 AM. The afternoon secular program is going to be done as a "supervised home schooling program". Students will all be registered through a local charter school and will be taking an individually designed secular program custom made for each student. Rabbi Steinberg and other accredited teachers will be supervising the secular program, and will be available for one-on-one help for any student that needs it.<br /><br />The goal of the Yeshiva is to make a real Yeshiva education affordable for every family. <b>Full tuition this year is only $5,000> (75% lower than other L.A. high schools), and scholarships are available.</b> This is a perfect solution for home schooling families looking for a limudei kodesh program for their boys. For families that want to continue secular studies at home, they can attend the limudei kodesh in the morning and then go home for secular studies. It is also a wonderful option for the many families that have been considering the possibility of home schooling but were not practically able to do it since both parents work. <br /><br />The Yeshiva already has 11 boys registered and will be opening with boys in every grade, 9-12. It is centrally located at Congregation Ohev Shalom, 525 S. Fairfax. Free carpool from the Valley is also available.<br /><br />Please spread the word. More info is available at our website <a href="http://yeshivasohevshalom.com/" rel="nofollow">Yeshivas Ohev Shaloms</a>. Rabbi Chaim Tropper can be reached directly at (818) 461-4312 and is happy to meet with any interested families.<br /><br />A poster with more info as well as the calendar for the 2009-2010 school year will be posted shortly. <br /><br />Mendel Tropper"<br /><br />Make of it what you will. It is another chapter in the Tropper drama.Tropper/sons is Troublednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-21769114708310972042009-10-28T14:24:38.824-04:002009-10-28T14:24:38.824-04:00http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docView.asp...http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docView.asp?did=1000504906&fid=1124<br /><br />Boymelgreen faces eviction from Brooklyn HQ - report<br /><br />"Crain's": Boymelgreen has not paid rent, and faces a slew of lawsuits while many projects are stalled.<br /><br />Ariel Rosenberg<br /><br />13 Oct 09Rubashkin cousinhttp://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docView.asp?did=1000504906&fid=1124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-66511935424053308962009-10-28T14:16:09.455-04:002009-10-28T14:16:09.455-04:00"Zei" zeinen fun unzerra odder zei hobbe..."Zei" zeinen fun unzerra odder zei hobben gelernt der mama lashon keday tzu meragel zein?Lamdannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-14599497570711131852009-10-28T14:14:42.011-04:002009-10-28T14:14:42.011-04:00http://yeshivasohevshalom.com/RH%20Card.jpg
Maybe...http://yeshivasohevshalom.com/RH%20Card.jpg<br /><br />Maybe the guy with the trimmed beard?Picture of Chaim Tropper?http://yeshivasohevshalom.com/RH%20Card.jpgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-26047715631959992672009-10-28T14:03:30.970-04:002009-10-28T14:03:30.970-04:00Ah! Zet men yetzt az mir darfen redden "arum ...Ah! Zet men yetzt az mir darfen redden "arum fun inyan", demolt der "Basaysser-niks" vellen nisht farshtayen..<br /><br />***<br /><br />"Zei" farshtayen gantz gut in yeden shprach!Paul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-23066457292476919012009-10-28T14:01:28.880-04:002009-10-28T14:01:28.880-04:00Tropper and sons open a yeshiva in LA,.
Is it goo...Tropper and sons open a yeshiva in LA,.<br /><br />Is it good for the Jews and what's cooking?<br /><br />By now it's well known that Tropper does everything within a long term strategy. In his mind all the pieces around him have to fit as if he were playing on a huge global chess board with umpteen pieces. He plays on an side of the board, even under it. In other words he loves to play god. So now it has been found that he has at least two sons setting up a yeshiva high school in Los Angeles from September 2009. What is this all about?<br /><br />Why couldn't he get his sons jobs with batei din or with EJF type work? The answer may be that in the last year EJF and Tropper suffered a severe blow which is still playing itself out. <br /><br />Tropper lost the allegiance and more importantly the huge money potential of a billionaire BT disciple and backer Guma Aguiar and his wife Jamie. Tropper claims the fall-out was over Jamie refusing to submit to Tropper's demands for an EJF conversion but it goes far deeper than that. The bottom line is that Guma rebelled and threw off the yoke that Tropper tried to impose on him as Tropper has done on hundreds of gullible BT's over an almost 35 year career turning good kids into mindless zombies. <br /><br />In addition Tropper must now face the PR disaster of legal battles in courts and dinei Torah in Beth Dins in Israel and America with Guma Aguiar and with that many damaging revelations in the media as Guma is filled with anger at Tropper and cannot talk and reveal enough of the misdeeds. <br /><br />Tropper had turned his attention to turning naive GENTILES into his acolytes and zombies through EJF conversions, a very dangerous turn, but here too Tropper ran into serious and stiff opposition mainly from an enexpected source that does not usually involve itself in matters in far off America, from none other than the Beth Din of the Eidah Chareidit and with the well-mannered and English-speaking Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch a great scholar not fooled by Tropper's zig-zagging and lack of solid rabbinical backing for his dangerous EJF scheme.<br /><br />So, in the past year, to create cover for himself and to do damage control by burnishing his credibility, Tropper returned to his old stalking grounds the boring old world of Jewish outreach-kiruv, he is taken with a grain of salt in the outreach world as an eccentric oddity with a bull-horn voice box and inflated ego unlike the dayanim of Beth Dins who quiver at his arrival as if he were a literal Torquamada. <br /><br />Using financial largesse from his sole remaining king-size financial backer Tom Kaplan, Tropper has ingratiated himself with a few needy-for-funds-because-they-have-big-payrolls-and-staffs outreach organizations willing to co-opt themselves like Gateways and his old enemies the Ohr Somayach leaders in Jerusalem. Tropper has swalllowed his pride and gone back to them, like a dog that returns to its vomit, simply because he needs the cover of their good, or better than his, names at a time when he is under siege on a few fronts, especially the legal cases and Beth Din din Torah's coming up.<br /><br />Now, in almost all probability, as part of that push to cover up his own faltering image, he has pushed his own sons, from the wife he shunned and divorced yet, returning in a way like he is also doing to Ohr Somayach his old enemies, into yet another conventional field, not related to EJF and work with gentiles, by creating a yeshiva high school <a href="http://yeshivasohevshalom.com/" rel="nofollow">Yeshivas Ohen Shalom</a> in Los Angeles <a href="http://orthonomics.blogspot.com/2009/09/public-service-annoucement-affordable.html" rel="nofollow">headed by his sons Chaim and Mendel</a> Tropper.Tropper/sons is Troublednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-77218947042827388272009-10-28T14:01:11.321-04:002009-10-28T14:01:11.321-04:00The Kevin Cohen story was mentioned here before. H...The Kevin Cohen story was mentioned here before. His lawyer Matin Emounah is a Sefardi who is the top criminal lawyer in Nassau.Roslyn, Long Islandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-54597530791522226242009-10-28T13:59:27.424-04:002009-10-28T13:59:27.424-04:00Ah! Zet men yetzt az mir darfen redden "arum ...Ah! Zet men yetzt az mir darfen redden "arum fun inyan", demolt der "Basaysser-niks" vellen nisht farshtayen.Lamdannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-24231527849575301492009-10-28T13:59:20.718-04:002009-10-28T13:59:20.718-04:00N.Y. man charged in Ponzi-like adoption scam
MIN...N.Y. man charged in Ponzi-like adoption scam <br /><br />MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a New York attorney with victimizing 13 couples in a multistate, Ponzi-like adoption scam.<br /><br />Kevin Cohen of Roslyn was arraigned Wednesday on an indictment accusing him of grand larceny and other charges.<br /><br />Nassau County prosecutors say Cohen promised couples from New York, Georgia, Ohio, Texas and Florida that he could arrange adoptions. In reality, the babies never existed.<br /><br />They have likened the case to a Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors claim Cohen partially refunded some disappointed couples with proceeds he collected from subsequent couples. He is suspected of scamming at least $300,000.<br /><br />Cohen is being held on $500,000 bail, which defense attorney Matin Emouna says Cohen can't post. Emouna declined to comment on the specific allegations.APnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-76681283890270459672009-10-28T13:47:03.344-04:002009-10-28T13:47:03.344-04:00After 13 months of working with the Secret Service...After 13 months of working with the Secret Service on uncovering a string of gasoline stations throughout Michigan and Ohio -- using the stations and "auto repair shops" as fronts for laundering money to their cohorts in the Middle East; they would be very "grateful" if Jewish folk did NOT use "racially tinged" language in their comments on Jewish owned web sites.<br /><br />I urge one and all to heed the advice of the Secret Service.<br /><br />UOJPaul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-64557456677433382592009-10-28T13:43:54.788-04:002009-10-28T13:43:54.788-04:00I wonder if Chaim Tropper is falsely saying things...I wonder if Chaim Tropper is falsely saying things in the name of R' Kalman just like Leib does in name of several gedolim.<br /><br />But are you certain that Chaim and Mendel are the sons of Leib?Hmmmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-50339717031307236292009-10-28T13:41:30.805-04:002009-10-28T13:41:30.805-04:00http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2009/10/npr-abuse-sc...http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2009/10/npr-abuse-scandal-plagues-chasidic-jews.html?showComment=1256743678802#c2957711028813507985<br /><br />I think you are incredibly naive. Last night I had a long talk with a Gerrer Rosh Kollel who was explaining to me the high degree of discipline in Ger and how the Gerrer Rebbe's pronouncements control many areas of daily life . It is ludicrous to think that Mondrowitz is still in Israel without the knowledge or awareness and active defense of the Gerrer Rebbe.Rav Eidensohn exposes Gerroristshttp://daattorah.blogspot.com/2009/10/npr-abuse-scandal-plagues-chasidic-jews.html?showComment=1256743678802#c2957711028813507985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-70911526864461320272009-10-28T13:16:23.444-04:002009-10-28T13:16:23.444-04:00TropWatch unveils a trail of Tropper nepotism, Cha...TropWatch unveils a trail of Tropper nepotism, Chaim Ozer and Mendel Tropper open a yeshiva in LA, obviously with Tropper's backing and Tom Kaplan's MONEY:<br /><br />"TropWatch said...Does anyone know if Leib Tropper's son Chaim Ozer is the Chaim Tropper who runs a yeshiva in LA touting 75% less tuition fee than the competition? (How could they do that unless they have a Kaplan type benefactor?)"<br /><br />The answer seems to be very simple by doing a small Google search and here's the result from Tropper's own Horizons newsletter self-adulation propaganda machine:<br /><br />"<a href="http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:Lv7QtGY5bacJ:www.horizons.edu/hakol/fall2004.htm+Chaim+Ozer+Tropper&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" rel="nofollow">HAKOL Newsletter from Kol Yaakov/Horizons. Fall 2004. Vol. 2:1:Tishrei 5765</a>: Mazel Tov: Rabbi & Mrs. Chaim Ozer Tropper and Rabbi & Rebbitzen Leib Tropper on the birth of their first son/grandson"<br /><br />So there you have it and it answers your questions that for sure their Kaplan money funnel gets piped all the way over to L.A. and it's a typical Tropper tactic that what popularity won't buy you, money will, and just like Tropper came up with his scheme to sponsor and pay rabbis to come to EJF conventions and pay for the full creature comforts of gentiles with Jewish partners to come to EJf retreats and enjoy free weekends and all the goodies to lure the gentile to become EJF converts, it is peanuts and small potatoes to gave relative pocket money to Chaim Ozerl AND Mendelle Tropper, eeven if they are from the first wife number one from the Margolin family who was scorned and humilaited, but to run a yeshiva and pay the bulk of students' tuitions still runs into hunddreds of thousands if not a couple of million dollars a year, that is obviously being backed to the hilt by pappy Tropper who runs around the world like a celebrity and his rich sponsors Tom and Daphne Recanati Kaplan.<br /><br />Only one hit on Google for "Chaim Ozer Tropper" but more for "Chaim Tropper" as TropWatch also says:<br /><br />"There is also a Chaim Tropper on the AJOP payroll.<br /><br />And there is a Chaim Tropper who gave the shidduchim crisis workshop at the Agudah Fresser Convention. People were upset that Tropper was throwing around a percentage of people "who will never get married". He answered the complaints by blaming it on R' Kalman Epstein who he claimed told him to speak in alarmist fashion."<br /><br />So it's him, he doesn't use the name "Chaim Ozer" like at home with dad, but cuts it down to "Chaim" as seen in a couple of posts, one from AJOP's own site that confirms that <a href="http://www.ajop.com/person/4901750/Ner-LeElef-Chaim-Tropper.htm" rel="nofollow">Chaim Tropper IS from Los Angeles</a>. <br /><br />Now there is also Mendel Tropper who is in the game as well as he plugs his brother's new yeshiva on someone's blog: <a href="" rel="nofollow">Public Service Annoucement: Affordable Los Angeles Yeshiva Alternative September 02, 2009</a> and a few other places.<br /><br />Evidently Chaim Ozer has inherited his father's frenetic speaking style and he dives into speaking about "wshidduchim" in the kiruv world that is just another code word and excuse for laaunching into discussions about sex, a very dangerous and delicate topic that can reveal more about the teacher than shed light or help any of the students, as Tropper's own life history has clearly shown.Tropper/sons is Troublednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-69827665675149823932009-10-28T13:02:04.234-04:002009-10-28T13:02:04.234-04:00Go to R' Yudel's site and talk about your ...Go to R' Yudel's site and talk about your experiences at any bais din:<br /><br />http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.htmlPaul Mendlowitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-50413772801386007242009-10-28T12:51:36.897-04:002009-10-28T12:51:36.897-04:00Eric Adams also heads the pathetic group called &q...Eric Adams also heads the pathetic group called "100 Blacks in Law Enforcement"<br /><br />http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/10/rubashkin_trial.php<br /><br />Rubashkin money is spread all over Crown Heights, from schools to soup kitchens, and the family has been instrumental in drumming up support for politicians within the community. (State Senator Eric Adams drove all the way to Philadelphia to show up at the trial of Sholoms brother Moshe last year. Moshe was convicted of illegally storing toxic waste, and is currently incarcerated in a federal prison in New York). And while the factory's poor environmental and immigration record caused Jews across the country to question the very meaning of eating kosher meat, Crown Heights closed ranks in support of the Rubashkins.<br /><br />Here are some highlights from the trial this week:<br /><br />• A worker testified that Sholom Rubashkin seemed antsy on the day of his arrest. Rubashkin's defense lawyers countered that, for Sholom, hyper is normal.<br /><br />We have to agree with him here; both Rubashkin brothers are noticeably excitable and hyper, especially when they talk about Judaism. (You can read an interesting profile of this aspect of Sholom in journalist Stephen Bloom's book, Postville, which is about the relationship between the ultra-orthodox Jews and the residents of the Lutheran town where they built the factory.) At his trial in Philadelphia, Moshe was very excitable. In testimony, he gave a long, meandering speech about the history of the Lubavitch.<br /><br />• Another employee at the plant testified that, on the day of Sholom's arrest, he sent another employee to ask her whether she could alter prior invoices. This is a central issue in the trial, since prosecutors allege that Rubashkin directed employees to falsify sales records in a plot to mislead the plant's lender about declining finances, writes Grant Schulte of the Des Moines Register.<br /><br />• "Everyone who knows him, knows him as a great man," said Eli Ezer Pinson, 21, who joined a 24-hour bus ride from Brooklyn to show his support. "People look up to him. He always made time for everyone." In USA Today, Shulte describes the scene at the trial: Rubashkin supporters pack the courtroom and defend him at every opportunity. Some gather outside to watch a live feed and repeat Hebrew psalms feverishly.<br /><br />(When we watched Moshe Rubashkin's trial in Philadelphia, we witnessed a similar scene: People came from Crown Heights to Philly on a chartered bus to show their support. We specifically remember a woman praying to God that the judge would be confused.)Archie Bunkerhttp://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/10/rubashkin_trial.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-84024181547212540322009-10-28T12:46:36.511-04:002009-10-28T12:46:36.511-04:00Anyone who friends UOJ on Facebook should have his...Anyone who friends UOJ on Facebook should have his children barred from yeshivos.42 Broadwaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-25140793512556732942009-10-28T12:30:04.461-04:002009-10-28T12:30:04.461-04:00http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.h...http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html<br /><br />moshe and kayla bursztyn 686 park avenue lakewood nj nephew of gavriel finkel had another frum yid in lakewood arrested causing this yid thousands of dollars in fines when burstyn was summoned to bais din bais yosef and mechon lehorah they threatened bais din that they will sue bais din bais yosef and mechon lehroah for millions of dollars avrohm gutman and gavriel finkel cover for them they even got him a job at fellow dayan binyomin shulgassers yeshiva when no other yeshiva would hire him being that he is a lo tzayis ldinahMoshe Bursztynhttp://yudelstake.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-47005567245717832222009-10-28T12:18:25.935-04:002009-10-28T12:18:25.935-04:00http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/li_biz_gal_ponz...http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/li_biz_gal_ponzi_princess_MPhBa5Ni6N3fnTJr1zmAsL<br /><br />The owner of a Long Island janitorial-supply company -- under investigation for cleaning out scores of investors -- is known as a "Ponzi princess" for pulling off a scheme that destroyed families while she lived the good life, sources said.<br /><br />The US Bankruptcy Court trustee in the case, lawyer Kenneth Barnard, estimates the alleged fraud by businesswoman Laurie Schneider has hit as many as 50 victims and losses may rise to $30 million.<br /><br />"Madoff is the king. She is like a little Ponzi princess," said one distraught victim, who says he lost $200,000. "And no one has done anything about it."<br /><br />Several companies operated by Schneider, 35, of Oceanside, LI, have been forced into bankruptcy, but she maintains her waterfront home, Barnard said.<br /><br />Court papers claim the scam involved fake investments and flipping real estate that was never purchased.<br /><br />The papers show that investors gave money that Schneider told them would buy janitorial supplies, but they think she pocketed some of their cash.<br /><br />Several alleged victims confirmed they had been interviewed by federal investigators, but the feds have declined to confirm or deny an investigation into Schneider, who has no criminal record.Laurie Schneiderhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/li_biz_gal_ponzi_princess_MPhBa5Ni6N3fnTJr1zmAsLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-14115491441996370052009-10-28T12:02:01.533-04:002009-10-28T12:02:01.533-04:00I work as a consultant to Siemens.
http://www.law...I work as a consultant to Siemens.<br /><br />http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202434970012<br /><br />Siemens Fights to Recover From Bribery ScandalGeorge Weinbergerhttp://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202434970012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-89757793714545999302009-10-28T11:59:59.210-04:002009-10-28T11:59:59.210-04:00http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=120243498501...http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202434985019<br /><br />What's the cost of not showing up to court? For PepsiCo Inc., it's a $1.26 billion default judgment. A Wisconsin state court socked the company with the monster award in a case alleging that PepsiCo stole the idea to bottle and sell purified water from two Wisconsin men.<br /><br />Now the company is scrambling to salvage the situation. The damages award was handed down on Sept. 30. PepsiCo filed motions to vacate the order and dismiss the claims on Oct. 13, saying it wasn't even aware of the lawsuit until Oct. 6.What about Margo stealing from Torah Vodaas?http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202434985019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-52758687589683123032009-10-28T11:29:57.771-04:002009-10-28T11:29:57.771-04:00http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3796682,...http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3796682,00.html<br /><br />Orthodox Settler Rescues Gay PalestinianYudi Kolkohttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3796682,00.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-42369480330972240742009-10-28T10:18:51.546-04:002009-10-28T10:18:51.546-04:00http://www.cityam.com/lifestyle/books/ldhdubbguz.h...http://www.cityam.com/lifestyle/books/ldhdubbguz.html<br /><br />The fraud of the century was all not about greed, says a new book, but a man proving that he had power<br /><br />Zoe Strimpel<br /><br />THE BELIEVERS<br />BY ADAM LEBOR<br />Orion<br /><br />Budapest-based journalist Adam LeBor’s book about the world’s greatest fraudster Bernard Madoff.<br /><br />He argues that Madoff, who defrauded what LeBor calls the “Jewish institution”, was motivated by a desire to avenge his “shtarker” roots against the “yekkes” – that is, the rough, Yiddish-speaking Eastern European immigrant Jews he descended from, against the refined, proudly assimilated German Jewish establishment that had already set up the likes of Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. His forebears lived in their very own stateside shtetl on Lower East Side, among gangsters that used physical violence and bribes to rule their roost. LeBor calls Madoff a modern “shtarker”, or gangster, who used technology, charm and brilliant social connections to rule and, ultimately, destroy. His motivation was deep and determined – the result speaks for itself.Leopold Margulieshttp://www.cityam.com/lifestyle/books/ldhdubbguz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com