tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post6569990755995174097..comments2024-03-27T15:07:31.495-04:00Comments on <b><center>Unorthodox-Jew </center></b> <br><small>A Critical View of Orthodox Judaism</small>: 300 People In Attendance At Cong. Ahavas Yisroel Erev Yom Kippur!Paul Mendlowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05887774341136059873noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-34684987090739612352009-10-06T00:27:40.029-04:002009-10-06T00:27:40.029-04:00Cynicism makes for terrible kiruv and even worse g...Cynicism makes for terrible kiruv and even worse geirut, so stay away from this bunch of connivers:<br /><br />Not only is the Gateways organizations on Tropper's and EJF's "recommended" list of Kiruv Organizations "<a href="http://www.eternaljewishfamily.org/site/resources/links/" rel="nofollow">Eternal Jewish Family - External Links</a>"<br /><br />There is a planned joint seminar in the works between Tropper's EJF and GATEWAYS:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.eternaljewishfamily.org/site/events/event/423/" rel="nofollow">EJF Student Shabbaton with Gateways</a> Stamford, CT<br />10/16/2009 - 10/18/2009<br />A Shabbaton in conjunction with Gateways focusing on intermarriage prevention. The event will include 100 students, and staff from both organizations.<br /><br /><b>Call on anyone you know to protest and boycott the GATEWAYS organizations to stop them from exposing their students to Tropper's fanaticism and EJF's entrapment scams now enabled by "Gateways" !</b><br /><br />Call, EMail and Fax the GATEWAYS people to protest their joint venture with Tropper/EJF:<br /><br />From GATEWAYS: CONTACT US:<br /><br />GATEWAYS Main Office<br /><br />11 Wallenberg Circle, Monsey, NY 10952<br /><br />Email: office@gatewaysonline.com <br /><br />Phones: <br /><br />800-722-3191<br /><br />845-352-0393<br /><br />Fax 845-352-0394<br /><br />GATEWAYS Director of Operations<br />Rabbi Avrumy Jordan<br />845-352-0393 x108 <br /><br />GATEWAYS Public Relations Liason<br />Dr. Robyn Fischer<br />845-352-0393 x107<br /><br />GATEWAYS: Director of Russian Programming<br />Rabbi Mordechai Tokarski<br />718-332-1506 <br /><br />GATEWAYS: Director of Collegiate Programming<br />Rabbi Reuven Ibragimov<br />1-800-742-2228 <br /><br />Director of Special Projects<br />Rabbi Yisroel Cherns<br />845-352-0393 x115 <br /><br />GATEWAYS: Event Registration<br />Ms. Tammi Lit<br />845-352-0393 x127 <br /><br />GATEWAYS: Webmaster<br />Mr. Danny Glix<br />845-290-8726BOYCOTT GATEWAYSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-79745907404483493472009-10-02T18:16:26.826-04:002009-10-02T18:16:26.826-04:00In another development, the RCA granted a problema...<i>In another development, the RCA granted a problematic rabbi from their ranks permission to perform conversions. This rabbi is well-known in the US for allowing low mechitzos in botei knesses, Torah readings in women's minyanim and he even advised appointing a woman posek in every shul "to avoid discriminating against women." </i><br /><br />This is Rav Lokkstein , Tropper hates him with a a vengeance because of the mechitza in KJ and also Rav Lookstein’s beard is not up to Tropper’ high standards.<br /><br />The RCA still does not realize that Tropper wants to burry them, look the letter the RCA’s fearless leader Basil Herring write to Tropper. Written like a sheep begging the wolf to eat her last.<br /><br />From: Basil Herring<br />To: Rabbi Leib Tropper<br />Sent: Mon May 11 16:03:42 2009<br />Subject: RE: EJF - E-News - May 2009<br />Dear Rav Tropper:<br />This is a most helpful statement and clarification, and I thank you for issuing it. You are indeed a man of your word, and I look forward to the additional public clarifications, as discussed.<br />Kol tuv, and be’hatzlachah in all of your work on behalf of the Klal.<br />Basil Herringthe Monsey Tzadiknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-69286345286566244272009-10-02T17:45:51.065-04:002009-10-02T17:45:51.065-04:00He has even resorted to a ruthless mercenary slash...<i>He has even resorted to a ruthless mercenary slasher blogger, who trolls and flames away in classical Internet trolling and flaming wars, known as "Roni" on Rabbi Eidensohn's Daat Torah blog to defend Tropper and EJF at all costs, even when facts and Jewish law as expressed by Rabbi Eidensohn and based on Rabbi Strenbuch prove them 100% wrong. </i><br /><br />“Roni” is Tropper bicvodo ubatzmo. People know Tropper can recognize him in an instance. He even does not pretend to behave like he is someone else.the Monsey Tzadiknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-647906609801751092009-10-02T13:22:46.352-04:002009-10-02T13:22:46.352-04:00http://news.aol.com/article/recession-doesnt-hurt-...http://news.aol.com/article/recession-doesnt-hurt-international/695836<br /><br />(Oct. 1) -- In this job market, people will do some crazy things.<br /><br />Say, for instance, flailing around with their clothes on fire, plunging 50 feet into an enormous air bag, or being catapulted through the air headfirst like a human missile.Shea Fishman retirement newshttp://news.aol.com/article/recession-doesnt-hurt-international/695836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-54379262520274386642009-10-02T12:32:57.848-04:002009-10-02T12:32:57.848-04:00Patrick Gaspard, considered one of the most powerf...Patrick Gaspard, considered one of the most powerful figures in the Obama White House, is a "longtime ACORN operative" and former union official, according to a report posted Monday on the American Spectator's online blog.<br /><br />Gaspard's name recently surfaced as the official President Obama dispatched to urge beleaguered New York Gov. David Paterson not to run for another term. Paterson insists he'll continue to run for governor even without Obama's support.<br /><br />Gaspard has extensive ties to organized labor and community-organizing groups. One measure of his influence in the White House: He holds the same "political affairs director" title that belonged to Karl Rove during the Bush administration.<br /><br />The Spectator's Matthew Vadum, a senior editor at the Capital Research Center think tank, reported that Gaspard was the New York political director for top ACORN official Bertha Lewis before 2003. Lewis is the CEO and "chief organizer" for ACORN, which is the subject of more than a dozen investigations for vote-registration fraud nationwide.<br /><br />The House and Senate recently moved to cut off ACORN funding after a series of videos revealed the willingness of its staff to help establish a reputed child-prostitution ring based in San Salvador. Obama refused to support ending federal funding for ACORN, however, telling ABC: "It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to."<br /><br />Vadum cited the blog maintained by ACORN founder Wade Rathke, ChiefOrganizer.org, as his source for the Gaspard-ACORN link.<br /><br />In May, Rathke described how officials of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) teamed up with HealthCare Reform Czar Nancy-Ann DeParle to pry big price concessions from private health firms.<br /><br />Speaking of the advantage that comes from having powerful friends in high places, Rathke wrote: "Tell me that (Local) 1199’s former political director, Patrick Gaspard (who was ACORN New York’s political director before that) didn’t reach out from the White House and help make that happen, and I’ll tell you to take some remedial classes in 'politics 101.'"<br /><br />The Spectator described Gaspard "ACORN's Man in the White House." It also reported that he was national field director in 2004 for American Coming Together (ACT), a get-out-the-vote organization.<br /><br />The FEC hit ACT with a $775,000 fine for campaign-finance violations — one of the largest FEC fines ever — and it reportedly ceased operations in 2005.<br /><br />Gaspard also worked for eight years for SEIU Local 1199, a hospital workers local, according to the Village Voice.<br /><br />The Spectator report detailed what it calls the "fuzzy" line between the SEIU and ACORN.<br /><br />Vadum reported that SEIU Local 880 and the SEIU Local 100 that Rathke heads are "part of the ACORN network of organizations."<br /><br />He reported that the locals were listed as such on ACORN's Web site, buts the references recently were removed.Bim Bam identitynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-87149934090010676702009-10-02T12:23:48.454-04:002009-10-02T12:23:48.454-04:00http://www.vosizneias.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/...http://www.vosizneias.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/rose-missing.jpg<br /><br />Maybe Rose Hoffman was trying to get away from Baruch Lanner who has moved to Boca and is being protected by a modern orthodox rabbi in town.<br /><br />A rov in NY observed Lanner right before his move South acting very creepy around some kids.Boca Ratonhttp://www.vosizneias.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/rose-missing.jpgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-70861912287365203092009-10-02T12:21:42.992-04:002009-10-02T12:21:42.992-04:00The 14-year-old missing girl has been found this m...The 14-year-old missing girl has been found this morning safe in Jupiter, FL, by Jupiter Police Department.<br /><br />----<br /><br />Boca Raton, FL - Police and Miami-Dade Shmira Patrol are requesting the publics help for a missing girl who was last seen Yom Kippur afternoon at 4:00 PM near the Boca Raton Synagogue<br /><br />14-year-old, red head, Rose Hoffman was last seen riding a red 10-speed bike near the shul yesterday afternoon, wearing a white V neck t-shirt with blue shorts, black adidas with pink & green trim.<br />If you have any information or more details please contact Miami-Dade Shmira Patrol hot line at 305-999-3379UOJ gets resultsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-5533379762806204842009-10-02T12:17:49.183-04:002009-10-02T12:17:49.183-04:00It's a good thing that Shmarya is such a star ...It's a good thing that Shmarya is such a star dectective and holding the moral high ground for all us lost souls.<br /><br />He just found out that Balkany donated small amounts of money to Republican election campaigns and plastered it on a blog post.<br /><br />What would we do without Shmarya uncovering these hideous scandals?<br /><br />Hey putz, don't you know that Arlen Specter betrayed the GOP and jumped to Obama and the Democraps?<br /><br />This is why you think that the public owes it to you to buy you a new computer?Politically incorrectnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-31056228570535262742009-10-02T12:10:18.340-04:002009-10-02T12:10:18.340-04:00It looks like Shmarya is facing his first lawsuit ...It looks like Shmarya is facing his first lawsuit with Jack Porter threatening to sue him for defamation.<br /><br />Even Shmarya's anti-orthodox supporters are pissed at him seeing this as a guy who tried getting romantic with the nutty Baltimore woman and now faces her ruining his life because he put his arm around her and squeezed her tush or something like that. They are both not frum and this is normal behavior unless you are writing a blog in Baltimore that sees half the world as sexually deviant.<br /><br />If Shmarya keeps being a stubborn tuchess about it he might have marshalls confiscate his only possession, the 386 computer that he blogs from. The bottom line is that Porter received "probation before judgment" which means he will probably never have a criminal record.Politically incorrectnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-10147919048855477732009-10-02T11:46:21.888-04:002009-10-02T11:46:21.888-04:00Have Your Carpet Professionally swept under
Remo...Have Your Carpet Professionally swept under <br /><br />Remove ghastly abuse with high quality carpet sweeping.<br /><br />VisitHere<br /><br />http://junderpags.com/t/c/948/t1/bz8997.htmlMatt Salomonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-84094899677885772712009-10-02T11:38:23.268-04:002009-10-02T11:38:23.268-04:00COPENHAGEN (AP) Chicago is eliminated in first rou...COPENHAGEN (AP) Chicago is eliminated in first round of voting for the 2016 Olympics.UOJ Gets Resultsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-64918703363139729432009-10-02T11:36:51.135-04:002009-10-02T11:36:51.135-04:00Rabbi Margulies is very concerned this morning and...Rabbi Margulies is very concerned this morning and had me contact the Dept of Corrections for further information on the girth of Ronald Tackman. Balkany had promised Rabbi Margulies that the only brand new size 75xx jumpsuit in the gemach would be reserved for him.<br /><br />It's a little hard getting the information needed as prisoner privacy rules preclude the Dept from telling us if Tackman is also a baal bassar.Yankel Applegradnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-42580070897715443362009-10-02T11:25:29.749-04:002009-10-02T11:25:29.749-04:00http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/nyregion/02escap...http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/nyregion/02escape.html<br /><br />A well-dressed prisoner who escaped from the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse Wednesday morning after he was mistaken for a lawyer was arrested Thursday night as he was stepping off a bus in Upper Manhattan, the police said.<br /><br />The escapee, Ronald Tackman, was near a friend’s house when he was caught on 175th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Washington Heights just before 9 p.m., the police said. <br /><br />Those officers and others will face disciplinary action after an investigation into the escape is complete, said Stephen J. Morello, a department spokesman, who declined to comment on specific failures in the officers’ performances. The reassignments were made on Wednesday evening.<br /><br />The escape was considered a “systemic failure” and has prompted a review of security procedures and staffing levels in all city jails, Mr. Morello said.<br /><br />As an added security measure, beginning on Friday, all 69 inmates at Rikers Island who require special monitoring because they are considered escape risks are to be outfitted in bright orange jumpsuits whenever they travel from the jail to court, Mr. Morello said.<br /><br />Mr. Tackman, 56, who was dressed in a three-piece suit, somehow slipped out of a gated corridor on the 12th floor of the courthouse on Centre Street. He walked down a flight of stairs to the holding area of an 11th-floor courtroom, where a court officer accepted his word that he was a lawyer. Then he walked out the courtroom door and left the building.Uncle Milty's jumpsuit gemachhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/nyregion/02escape.html?hpwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-35047639112266879982009-10-02T11:17:37.477-04:002009-10-02T11:17:37.477-04:00http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-airdog26-p...http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-airdog26-pg,0,7429694.photogallery<br /><br />The Lubavs in Los Angeles can forget about Yanover smuggling.Hundthttp://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-airdog26-pg,0,7429694.photogallerynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-84868398119437048252009-10-02T11:15:25.605-04:002009-10-02T11:15:25.605-04:00I think Levi Balkany is lying.
The ad states tha...I think Levi Balkany is lying. <br /><br />The ad states that Rubashkin was the only one from 29 companies raided to get criminal charges instead of civil charges. Some of the others definitely have either criminal charges or continuing investigations into laying charges.Pablo Fairdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-15968695766657747522009-10-02T11:13:04.285-04:002009-10-02T11:13:04.285-04:00There are more Arabs among them than people realiz...There are more Arabs among them than people realize. These aren't just Mexican gardeners.<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/us/politics/02immig.html<br /><br />Although President Obama has put off an immigration overhaul until next year, the federal agency in charge of approving visas is planning ahead for the possibility of giving legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, the agency’s director said Thursday.<br /><br />“We are under way to prepare for that,” Alejandro Mayorkas, the director of the agency, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, said in an interview. <br /><br />Currently, the citizenship agency can handle applications from about six million immigrants a year, Mr. Mayorkas said, including the time-consuming collection of fingerprints and other biometric identity information. Under some plans for legalization, the agency might receive that many applications in a few weeks.Bim Bam identityhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/us/politics/02immig.html?hpwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-62284378470676270132009-10-02T10:52:03.433-04:002009-10-02T10:52:03.433-04:00http://gazetteonline.com/breaking-news/2009/10/01/...http://gazetteonline.com/breaking-news/2009/10/01/friends-of-sholom-ad-aggravates-agriprocessors-trial-judge<br /><br />The Federal judge trying my shvogger Sholom Rubashkin must be reading the blogs and is disgusted by Shmarya's shnorring as much as everyone else. She has ruled that no one may blog from the courtroom which precludes Shmarya's excuse to shnorr a new laptop.<br /><br />Shmarya thinks he's some major sleuth this morning for Googling the address of who placed a newspaper ad defending Rubashkin, that also angered the judge.<br /><br />It of course was revealed that my son Levi Balkany was behind it.<br /><br />I hope UOJ or Yudel don't dig up that the ad was paid for through the appeals of Pinny Lipschutz and the Novominsker or all hell will break loose.<br /><br />At least we'll be able to declare a mistrial because of the ad."Uncle Milty" Balkanyhttp://gazetteonline.com/breaking-news/2009/10/01/friends-of-sholom-ad-aggravates-agriprocessors-trial-judgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-74183213030415964752009-10-02T10:45:56.995-04:002009-10-02T10:45:56.995-04:00Is that one of the Gerrorist Endens?Is that one of the Gerrorist Endens?18th Avenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-87656802441001170922009-10-02T10:34:19.492-04:002009-10-02T10:34:19.492-04:00A Calabrian etrog tragedy
Matthew Wagner • THE JE...A Calabrian etrog tragedy<br /><br />Matthew Wagner • THE JERUSALEM POST<br /><br />This year Moshe, a resident of Kfar Chabad, wanted to play by the rules. Instead of smuggling as he had done in previous years he wanted to go legit.<br /><br />Moshe is an importer of the "Yanova etrog" an expensive variety of citron grown in Calabria, a region on the southwestern tip of Italy.<br /><br />This fruit is sought after by members of the Chabad-Lubavitch hassidic movement, for use in the religious festivities during Succot.<br /><br />But according to Moshe, who used a fictitious name to protect his identity, his attempt to behave lawfully backfired.<br /><br />"My entire shipment of etrogim was ruined by Agriculture Ministry officials last Thursday," Moshe said this week.<br /><br />"The shipment arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport where it was inspected by officials from the Agriculture Ministry and then they sprayed it with some kind of pesticide. A few hours later the etrogim started rotting.<br /><br />"I lost everything, everything.<br /><br />"I think they did it on purpose to protect local growers from competition."<br /><br />The ministry said in response that "the State of Israel does not normally permit imports of citrus fruits due to various pests, insects and diseases.<br /><br />"In an unusual move, this year the Agriculture Ministry permitted the import of etrogim from Calabria out of consideration for the desires of the public. To allow this import, however, the Agriculture Ministry's plant protection agency must prevent contamination.<br /><br />"The etrogim that are imported are inspected upon arrival and undergo a fumigation treatment. This treatment is administered carefully and has been proven to cause no damage to fruit. All the etrogs were treated in this way."<br /><br />The ministry spokeswoman said that she was not aware of any case in which a shipment of etrogim was destroyed.<br /><br />"Without receiving shipment details we have no way of providing more specific information. However, any shipment found to be contaminated is either returned to its source or destroyed immediately."<br /><br />The type of etrog grown in Calabria has a long history. Chabad in particular go to great lengths to obtain the fruit, which is sold in the US for about $150 each and in Israel for slightly less.<br /><br />The founder of Chabad, Rabbi Schneer Zalman of Ladi, claimed that the etrog from Calabria was the one used by Moses the very first time the holiday was celebrated in the desert.<br /><br />The last rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was careful to use only etrogim from Calabria.<br /><br />Part of the reason for the fruit's popularity is the long tradition from generation to generation of supervision that has ensured that the fruit was never grafted with a lemon.<br /><br />The Yanova etrog was commonly obtained by Jews in the Italian port city of Genoa as early as the Middle Ages.<br /><br />Every year in the summer a delegation of rabbis who provide supervision during the picking of the fruit arrive in Santa Maria Del Cedro, a town in Calabria. The name means "Saint Mary of the Citron."<br /><br />Moshe, meanwhile, has learned a lesson from his ordeal, which has caused him a financial loss of thousands of dollars.<br /><br />"Next year I am not going to be a good boy. Like everybody else, I will smuggle the etrogim into Israel in suitcases and sell them in the black market. This proves that when you try to play by the rules you get burned."Yanover fressernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-11301913097401170132009-10-02T10:24:33.106-04:002009-10-02T10:24:33.106-04:00An attorney from Tel Aviv who represents foreign a...An attorney from Tel Aviv who represents foreign asset holders and who is familiar with Enden's case, says that Enden uses a network of contacts - called "sniffers" - who tell him about unclaimed property and inheritances in Israel. Other contacts in the U.S. and the U.K. help him track down inheritors, whom he then asks for a power of attorney to handle the assets' sale for a fee, said the attorney. <br /><br />Contacted by Anglo File on his Israeli telephone yesterday, Enden flatly denied all the allegations against him, adding: "Anything you write will be false." Enden then said he did not want to discuss the matter before hanging up the phone. <br /><br />"Throw a pebble in the Israeli real estate market, and you will hit someone who's been stung by Enden," says the Tel Aviv attorney, who has represented people who say they have been cheated by Enden. The Brooklyn businessman, says the attorney, has a history of not paying associates and alleged accomplices. <br /><br />"Enden repeatedly refuses to pay people who locate assets for him," says the attorney from Tel Aviv. "Then he does not pay the people for whom he sells the property. Then he does not pay lawyers whose services he required in facilitating transactions. Finally, perhaps the tax authorities in the U.S. or Israel need to ask themselves whether he pays them." <br /><br />Two veteran lawyers from Tel Aviv, who represented Enden until he had a falling out with them over payment of fees they say they are owed, say that Enden makes use of his religious affiliation to gain the trust of Americans with Jewish roots. <br /><br />"One cannot overstate the effect that Enden, who is a charming and charismatic man who portrays himself as a rabbi, has on people with distant Jewish roots in the U.S.," said one of the lawyers, who asked that his name be withheld. <br /><br />His fellow lawyer added that Enden - who speaks fluent Hebrew after living in Israel for a period and whose two sons live in Israel - "fully exploits" the fact that some foreign inheritors "think of Israel as a strip of desert with camels, Jews and Arabs and cannot imagine that even undeveloped lots here can cost millions of dollars."part 2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-6189093513187736462009-10-02T10:24:10.344-04:002009-10-02T10:24:10.344-04:00Ha'aretz
Israelis seeking compensation from a...Ha'aretz<br /><br />Israelis seeking compensation from an American suspected of real estate fraud complained this week that police are not doing enough to investigate allegations against the man, who is implicated in forgery, withholding payment and libel. <br /><br />Despite numerous fraud complaints and lawsuits in civil court against him, American businessman Abraham Enden from New York visited Israel this week, without being called in for questioning, say complainants. <br /><br />Police and the courts are processing at least six different complaints against Enden, an ultra-Orthodox man in his fifties who specializes in locating heirs in the U.S. and the U.K. to property in Israel. The lawsuits and probes are all pending. Enden has not been convicted of wrongdoing and denies all the allegations made against him. <br /><br />The police's border control unit said Enden was allowed to enter and leave Israel because no warrant for his detention has been issued, while a spokesperson for the police's fraud squad confirmed the unit is looking into Enden's actions, but would not elaborate. <br /><br />Documents obtained by Anglo File suggest Enden presents himself as a rabbi, but Enden - in a telephone call this week - refused to answer questions about his rabbinic status. <br /><br />One of the people who consider themselves a victim of Enden's actions is Peter Revers from the U.K., who last year hired Enden to sell property in Israel that Revers had inherited. Revers said Enden sold the property for a higher price than the one stated in the deed of sale, and then skimmed the difference.<br /><br />"After the Custodian General released the money gained from the sale of the property which Peter Revers was entitled to inherit, the money was illegally taken out of the country by Enden," alleged Peter Revers' lawyer in Israel, Amir Goldfarb. <br /><br />"The fact that Enden can come in and out of Israel despite such allegations casts a question mark on the police's determination to deal with this complex case involving a U.S. citizen," said one complainant against Enden, who spoke on condition of anonymity lest he "antagonize the police." <br /><br />Tzipora Herzlich, an attorney from Tel Aviv who had represented Enden, this year complained to police that Enden had filed an allegedly falsified document giving him power of attorney for the sale of an asset in the center of the country. <br /><br />Another complaint against Enden came from a law firm in Tel Aviv acting on behalf of Ruth Jacobson, a now-deceased elderly Jewish South African woman who lived in California. The law firm's attorneys claim that Enden interfered with deals to sell the dead woman's property. <br /><br />Eli Shabo, a contractor from Afula, told Anglo File that Enden owed him money which he refused to pay for services rendered in two land deals - one for the Pikus family from Manhattan and the other for the Pinkus family in upstate New York - in which Enden was involved.Avrohom Endennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-70705288929205079192009-10-02T10:01:42.158-04:002009-10-02T10:01:42.158-04:00David Letterman reveals $2M sex affair extortion p...David Letterman reveals $2M sex affair extortion plot; CBS News producer Robert Halderman busted<br /><br />BY Richard Huff, George Rush and Samuel Goldsmith <br />DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS<br /><br />Friday, October 2nd 2009<br /><br />A top CBS News producer was busted Thursday for trying to shake down David Letterman - threatening to expose the late-night funnyman's affairs with several female staffers in a movie and book.<br /><br />The "Late Show" host revealed the stunning plot on last night's show in an extraordinary confession to viewers - and admitted he had indeed slept with several women who work at the show.<br /><br />He went on to explain that a man identified by police as Robert Halderman, a 51-year-old Emmy Award-winning producer, found out that he was sleeping with several staff members.<br /><br />Halderman allegedly threatened to expose the 62-year-old Letterman, who married his girlfriend, Regina Lasko, of 23 years in March, unless he forked over a staggering $2 million.<br /><br />"This morning, I did something I've never done in my life," Letterman told viewers. "I had to go downtown and testify before a grand jury.<br /><br />"Now of course we get to what was it was - we get to all the creepy stuff," Letterman said, taking a more serious tone.<br /><br />"I have had sex with women who work for me on this show."<br /><br />"Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would - especially for the women," he joked.<br /><br />"But that's a decision for them, if they want to go public and talk.<br /><br />Halderman, who was being held on attempted grand larceny charges, has directed dozens of "48 Hours" documentaries, from the Winter Olympics to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.<br /><br />A "Late Show" staffer, 31-year-old Stephanie Birkitt, once lived with Halderman, according to public records.<br /><br />Letterman said the shakedown started three weeks ago - when he found a package in his car.<br /><br />"I don't usually receive packages at 6 in the morning in the backseat of my car," he joked.<br /><br />"So I get to looking through it, and there's letters in the package and it says, 'I know that you do some terrible, terrible things, and I can prove that you do those terrible things.'<br /><br />"And sure enough, there was some stuff in the pages that proved I did those terrible things," he said.<br /><br />Letterman called his lawyer, and the two men set up a meeting with Halderman, who told them he was dead serious.<br /><br />Letterman and his lawyer called the Manhattan district attorney's office, "And we say, 'Can we run a couple of things by you guys?'<br /><br />"So we took the stuff down there and they said, 'Well, hello, this is blackmail,'" he said. The lawyer set up two subsequent meetings and gave Halderman a phony check for $2 million.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-85246417261525667962009-10-02T09:46:03.175-04:002009-10-02T09:46:03.175-04:00(CNNMoney.com) -- President Obama has been steadfa...(CNNMoney.com) -- President Obama has been steadfast in his pledge that he won't raise taxes on those making less than $250,000. But that doesn't mean only high-income households will be subject to higher taxes.<br /><br />An increasing number of influential Democrats and fiscal-policy experts have signaled that lawmakers will have to get a handle on the deficit. And they recommend seriously considering the creation of a value-added tax (VAT) on top of the federal income tax.<br /><br />That could mean more money out of everyone's pockets when buying virtually anything -- sweaters, school books, furniture, pottery classes, dinners out.<br /><br />A VAT is tax on consumption similar to a national sales tax. But it's not just paid at the cash register. It's levied at every stage of production. So all businesses involved in making a product or performing a service would pay a VAT. And then the end-user -- such as the retail customer -- ponies up as well.European Socialism comes to Americanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-82912101633107128432009-10-01T21:49:55.808-04:002009-10-01T21:49:55.808-04:00Jakub Porter was born to Poilishe partisan parents...Jakub Porter was born to Poilishe partisan parents in the Ukraine at the end of WWII and moved to Milwaukee a number of years later.<br /><br />He claims to have "orthodox" semicha but in Riverdale there are plenty of lowlives who vaguely if at all fit that description like Avi Weiss and Yitz Greenberg. The head of the freye yeshiva he attended is a YU grad although he is hardly frum anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21519732.post-38179972438039589002009-10-01T19:47:57.648-04:002009-10-01T19:47:57.648-04:00Maybe this anti-Tropper guy can tell us if Tropper...Maybe this anti-Tropper guy can tell us if Tropper will be making a cameo appearance in the new season of Mad Men on AMC.Joe Putznoreply@blogger.com