"Gloucester Jewish community to rebuild synagogue; Fire destroyed temple in 2007" by Steven Rosenberg, Globe Staff | July 31, 2009
GLOUCESTER - In recent decades, the 200-member temple served as a sanctuary for a diverse group of Jews who live on Cape Ann. Affiliated with the Conservative Jewish movement, it met the needs of straight, gay, traditional, and Reform-minded Jews who wanted a place to pray along the rocky coast....
Some $750,000 in donations poured into Gloucester from major US cities, as well as from Israel, Europe, Canada, and South America.
Letting you know whose balls they have in their fists.
The fire helped to strengthen the sense of Jewish community on Cape Ann.
With $2 million in insurance funds from the fire and another $2.5 million raised so far, the congregation has $4.5 million to spend on the new synagogue.
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I put nothing past them anymore.
Officials say they hope to raise an additional $3.5 million to create an endowment for the new building. Most donations have come from congregants, but Cutter said they were reaching out to Jews nationally.
Yup, despite Madoff looting his tribe they still have $$$$ -- even as you have been impoverished, 'murka!
Among those offering to help has been actor Adam Sandler, a former New Hampshire resident. Sandler, who is filming a movie in Essex, hosted a couple for a day on the set of his movie. In return, the couple donated $3,500 to Ahavat Achim....
Oh, great, MORE TAX DOUGH LOST to HOLLYWOOD!!!
F*** the Zohan!
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FLASHBACK:
"NYC to fight abuse among Orthodox Jews" by Associated Press | April 2, 2009
NEW YORK - A team of prosecutors, counselors, and religious leaders announced a program yesterday to combat sexual abuse among members of the insular world of Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox Jews.
It's EVEN WORSE than you can IMAGINE!
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"Illegal Organ Trafficking This is a telephone interview from 7/24/09 that was done with Anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes where she talks about how she blew the whistle on Brooklyn's organ bazaar. There are a couple of interesting Jewish call-ins. If I got the gist of it correct, it seems there are issues with Jews wanting to buy organs because many don't believe in desecrating bodies after death so they won't use donated organs from those who die. One lady's attitude was "Why should I put this burden on my family if I can buy the kidney instead?"
It also appears there are some hospitals that don't mind doing surgery on these possibly unwilling "donors". Via NPR out of NYC. It's about 38 mins long and well worth listening to.
"Nancy Scheper-Hughes is the woman who told the FBI a year ago that Rosenbaum was trafficking in black-market human organs. The FBI did nothing about it." -- Wake the Flock Up"Figure in NJ corruption scandal found dead at home DeFazio told The Jersey Journal newspaper of Jersey City the death doesn't appear to be a homicide.
"And if you believe that one, I have a hot kidney to sell you!" -- Wake the Flock Up
Yeah, that story went right down the old Zionist memory hole, didn't it?
The centerpiece of the outreach program, announced yesterday by District Attorney Charles Hynes and leaders from community-based organizations that serve Jewish communities, is a hot line that abuse victims can call and speak to a "culturally sensitive" social worker.
The establishment of the team, which will focus on child sex abuse, comes partly in response to a discussion on State Assemblyman Dov Hikind's radio show last summer. The show prompted dozens of listeners to come forward with stories of children being molested. Hikind has said that as many as four people a day over a three-month period last year approached him with accounts of secrets often kept for decades.
Notice how the AmeriKan jewspapers are ALWAYS WAILING AWAY on the CATHOLICS!!
The program, called Kol Tzedek, which means voice of justice in Hebrew, will allow callers to remain anonymous until they feel they're ready to identify themselves and meet with a social worker and prosecutors who specialize in sex crimes. The DA's office is prosecuting 16 suspected felony cases of sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn and three misdemeanor cases.
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I don't recall the Globe ever get back on that one, either.
