"Jewish donors give Catholic schools a lift" by Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | August 4, 2010
Richard J. Henken, a Boston real estate company executive, grew up in a conservative Jewish family on the south side of Newton. He attends services on the Jewish High Holy Days and considers his religion an important aspect of his identity.
He also gives $25,000 to $30,000 a year to Catholic schools. He serves as an officer on the board of the Catholic Schools Foundation, which raises millions each year to help send children from low-income families to Catholic schools.
A Jew on the board of Catholic schools, huh?
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So the Catholic Church is just a SERVANT to Zionist JEWS, huh?
That EXPLAINS a LOT! I think I will excommunicate myself.
“When I started telling my friends I had joined the board, I got a couple of funny looks,’’ he said....
Henken, the president of Schochet Associates, which develops, acquires, and manages residential and commercial property throughout New England, is one of a number of Jewish benefactors in Greater Boston who not only give generously to Catholic schools, but also provide significant fund-raising muscle at a time when the region’s parochial schools are under severe financial strain.
While they represent a small minority of donors to Catholic schools, the Jewish contributors are prominent in the community and deeply involved....
Most Jewish benefactors interviewed about their support for Catholic schools said they also give to Jewish organizations — particularly Combined Jewish Philanthropies, which among other causes supports the region’s Jewish day schools.
But they said they are passionate about Catholic schools because they provide an excellent education to the neediest children....
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley is grateful, but not surprised. When the Virgin Islands was struck by a hurricane while he was bishop there, the public schools were closed for two years, he said, but with major contributions from Leon Hess, the Jewish founder of the
Is that where you get YOUR GAS, Americans?
“My experience of Jewish people is that they have a very profound social consciousness and sense of responsibility to the community, and in that sense are very generous to many nonprofit enterprises,’’ he said....
Unless you are Arab, Muslim, or a Palestinian!
Jewish donors said they see their support for Catholic schools as an expression of Jewish values — promoting education, providing opportunity for the disadvantaged and new immigrants, and building institutions that benefit the community.
Unless, of course, you are a Palestinian!
“It’s really attractive because it touches a couple of different things Jews tend to care about — number one, it touches the poorest of the poor . . . and it does it through education,’’ said Barry Shrage, president of Combined Jewish Philanthropies.
Where did all that money come from, anyway?
Who MADOFF with it and then called it CHARITY!?
More than one person interviewed referenced the medieval Torah scholar Maimonides, who articulated eight levels of charitable giving, the most virtuous of which was to help another person become independent....
Unless, of course, they are PALESTINIAN!
Then you GRIND THEM INTO the DIRT before killing them!!
And don't like me equating all Jews as Zionist Israelis?
Well, TELL IT to that WAR-CRIMINAL STAIN that has FOSTERED such a view!
Relations between Jews and Catholics in Boston have not always been so positive.
Anti-Semitism was rampant in Boston’s Catholic community in the 1930s and 1940s and often exploded into violence, according to Thomas H. O’Connor, emeritus professor of history at Boston College.
I am REALLY, REALLY, SICK of hearing about the POOR, PERSECUTED JEW, 'kay?!!
The Rev. Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest from Michigan whose radio show became increasingly anti-Semitic during that period, had a huge fan base in Boston; James Michael Curley, then the mayor, called his city “the most Coughlinite city in America.’’
That began to change around 1950, O’Connor said. Archbishop Richard Cushing had a Jewish brother-in-law he adored; Cushing, who was elevated to cardinal in 1958, appeared regularly at events with Jewish leaders and worked steadily to improve interfaith relations. He invited Boston philanthropist Ray Tye, who was Jewish and died in March, to head Catholic Charities more than a half-century ago....
Related:
"Ray Tye made his money in the liquor business.... “He learned it’s not easy being a Jew.’’
Sigh.
Try being a Palestinian and see how you like it.
One of the most important forces connecting the Jewish community, among a wide spectrum of donors, to the Catholic schools has been Peter Lynch, the Fidelity mutual fund investor and Catholic philanthropist who has made the Catholic Schools Foundation his personal mission for two decades....
Look, a crypto-Jew who claims to be Catholic!
Related: $27m lift for city’s schools
At least Catholics LEARN THEIR LESSONS WELL!
A ONE-DAY WONDER, readers!!
"Sex Abuse Case Against Rabbi Raises Larger Issues" by Michael Rezendes, Boston Globe | July 20, 2010
Two years ago, Michael Brecher came to prosecutors in Boston with a disturbing allegation: In the 1970s, he said, he had been molested by a rabbi who was teaching sixth grade at one of the region’s most prestigious Jewish day schools, the Maimonides School.
Related: Under the Rabbi's Robes
Don't go there!
One of Brecher’s classmates came forward at the same time. And last year, after reading news accounts of indecent sexual assault and battery charges filed against Stanley Z. Levitt, a third person said that he, too, was abused by Levitt.
Now, court records show that Levitt might have tried to entice two more students into having intimate contact with him while they took showers in his Brighton home.
This is making me sick!
One of those former students has told Boston police that Levitt took him and other students on a field trip to Montreal where Levitt directed the students in a ritual purification bath, or mikvah, while all of them were naked, an inappropriate practice, according to an official at a prominent Jewish theological seminary.
Levitt has also faced allegations in Philadelphia, where he lived after leaving Maimonides.
The case, with echoes of clergy sexual abuse incidents in the Catholic Church, is a reflection, scholars say, of similar abuse cases that have taken place in the orthodox Jewish community, where rabbis are held in high regard and the social penalties for criticizing clergy can be high.
A number of prominent orthodox rabbis have faced charges, including Baruch Lanner, the subject of a 2000 expose in The Jewish Week, and Yehuda Kolko, who was featured in a 2006 New York magazine article.
“There is a growing acknowledgment that we have a problem, which has taken a long time,’’ said Yosef Blau, an Orthodox rabbi who is the spiritual adviser at the theological seminary at New York’s Yeshiva University. “Denial has been very powerful in the community.’’
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Neither Levitt nor his Boston attorney, Scott Curtis, returned messages from the Globe seeking comment on the allegations made by Maimonides School alumni. But court records show that Curtis is seeking to have the charges against Levitt dismissed based in part on “the age of the allegations.’’
As if THAT MATTERED!
Rabbi David Shapiro, the religious leader at Maimonides, who was an assistant principal in the mid-1970s, and Nathan Katz, the school’s executive director, declined to comment on the allegations by the former students.
Katz, however, issued a statement, saying, “Our hearts go out to the victims of child abuse and we are deeply saddened at the circumstances surrounding this matter, which took place in the mid-1970s.’’ He added that school officials take a variety of measures to ensure the safety of students, including criminal background checks of school employees.
Six years ago, Levitt pleaded no contest to molesting a boy living in an Orthodox Jewish community in Philadelphia and was later cited for violating probation when he refused treatment at an institute for sexual offenders.
That's another Jewish quality I'm not fond of: arrogance
“He basically flunked the sex offender course there because he refused to accept responsibility for what he did,’’ said Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney James Berardinelli, who prosecuted the case.
Why am I NOT SURPRISED about that?
Activists seeking to raise awareness about sexual abuse by rabbis say the Levitt case is an opportunity for Jewish leaders to continue efforts to overcome the religious obstacles that have discouraged some victims from reporting abuse to police....
Certainly a different and much more compassionate tone from the Boston Globe than what Catholics receive.
Researchers concerned about sexual abuse by rabbis attribute a gradual change in attitudes among orthodox Jews to websites and blogs where victims have felt free to discuss their abuse anonymously. They also cite the example of clergy abuse victims in the Catholic Church, who began speaking out in large numbers after the 2002 scandal in the Boston Archdiocese.
“Victims in Jewish communities were fortified by the experience of Catholics who have blazed a trail for them,’’ said Amy Neustein, editor of the book, “Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities & Child Sex Scandals.’’
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In addition, the former student who told investigators about the alleged mikvah incident in Montreal also said that his father, after learning of the incident, had a loud argument with Levitt and informed school authorities, according to court records. Yet Shapiro, the assistant principal at the time, testified to the grand jury that the school received no serious complaints about Levitt and that the rabbi left in good standing.
Oh, the JEWS COVERED IT UP just like us nasty Catholics, huh?
Neither Shapiro nor Katz returned messages from the Globe seeking to resolve the apparent inconsistency.
Typical Jewish reaction: stonewall it
Whether or not Maimonides officials received complaints about Levitt in the 1970s, it is clear that he did not return to the school after the 1976-1977 academic year and that he was subsequently charged with molesting three boys living in an Orthodox Jewish community in Philadelphia. In the first case, Levitt was found not guilty. In the second case, he pleaded no contest and received a five-year sentence of probation, which expired last December. And in the third case, the alleged victim withdrew his charges....
You know, if he keeps getting DRAGGED into COURT for it, well.... PERVERT!!
Curtis is arguing that the decades that have elapsed since Levitt was teaching religious studies in Brookline have rendered the statements made by his accusers “inherently unreliable.’’
Then the SAME SHOULD GO for the PERVERTED PRIESTS, right?
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David Deakin, chief of the Suffolk Family Protection and Sexual Assault Bureau, said prosecutors believe it is important to pursue child sexual abuse accusations, even if they are decades old, in part to prevent perpetrators from offending again.
RIGHT!!
“One of the things we know about pedophilia is that it tends to be a chronic condition, especially if it’s not treated and even when it is treated,’’ he said. “We have to think about the children the alleged offender may prey on in the future.’’
And this RABBI SCUM DENIES he even has a problem!
Then again, what do I care?
He's only doing it to Jews.
And don't you DARE HOLLER antisemitism because I LOVE ARABS!
Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney representing Brecher, agreed, saying the Levitt case is a cautionary tale for anyone working in an institution that serves children.
“Supervisors must be able to notice red flags when supervising adults working with children in institutional settings,’’ he said. “It’s naive to think that sexual abusers stop abusing children because they move from one location to another.’’
I would give you the Globe link but you would have to pay for this piece.Related: Cardinal says he erred in meeting with victim
German church expands sex abuse guidelines
Yeah, somehow Catholic sex scandals make the Zionist paper nearly every day.
YUP!!
And as if anyone needed any more beating over the head on this next issue:
"Catholic course faces hard truths of the Holocaust" by Alex Katz, Globe Correspondent | August 16, 2010
BROOKLINE — The Catholic Church has long been criticized by some for being silent during the rise of Nazism in Europe.
The controversy most often surrounds the role played by Pope Pius XII, whose papacy began at the outset of World War II. In some accounts, he privately sheltered hundreds of thousands of Jews and has been praised for the wisdom of his diplomacy.
But many decried his public silence about what was happening to the Jews.
Of course, NO ONE is DECRYING what the NaZionist state of Iz-ray-HELL is doing to PALESTINIANS -- at least, NOT in the AmeriKan NEWSPAPER!!!
Elie Wiesel believes the pope failed miserably.
“Even when they were persecuting the Jews of Rome under the windows of the Vatican, he did nothing to protest,’’ Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and a Nobel laureate, said in an interview.
Related: Elie Wiesel's book is now suspected to be another in a long series of literary hoaxes
So OLD ELIE is just ANOTHER in a LONG LINE of JEWISH LIARS, huh?
Also see: The Long Litany of Jewish Lies
Let's add to the list, shall we?
The 81-year-old Wiesel has been an outspoken critic of the Catholic Church’s wartime response to Jewish victimization since he gained fame for his book “Night,’’ which chronicles his experience as a young Orthodox Jew in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
You mean his FICTION, right?
Related: Den of Lies
Herman Rosenblat's Holocaust memoir of love is exposed as a hoax
Seems to be a PATTERN, folks!
Yet, he said that one of the most profound responses to “Night’’ he received came from Catholic theologians, who told him the book had a powerful effect on their religious outlook....
“I just hope that they will be honest with themselves and tell the truth,’’ he said....
Now THAT is CHUTZPAH!
You want HONESTY, do you?
The first thing that raised alarm bells was the discrepancy in the numbers. Then there was the replacing of the plaque and so much more. The lack of mass graves at Treblinka (watch: video); the removal of the photographs; the lie of the First World War; the exhaustive documentation of the holohoax; the sloppy record keeping(?); the extortion racket arising from such; the outright lies; the Red Cross totals, and on and on.
Or just read this: How One American Evolved into a "Holocaust Denier"
I must admit, the HOLOHOAX™ lie was one of the most crushing and difficult to absorb.
Of course NOW I will NEVER BELIEVE THEM EVER AGAIN!!!!
The seminar’s participants said they plan to teach about the Catholic Church’s controversial past in an open and honest way and to address the crucial role individual decision-making plays in a democratic society....
Yeah, right.
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Also see: World Works Harder For Holocaust™ Extortion Racket
So my HISTORY BOOKS are LIES, huh?
How many more LIES can they come up with?
"Reports of anti-Semitism inch up in Bay State; Total of 55 cases in ’09 defies trend" by Marissa Lang, Globe Correspondent | July 28, 2010
The audit “shows anti-Semitism is very much a part of the fabric of America, be it urban or suburban or rural,’’ said Derrek I. Shulman, the Anti-Defamation League's New England regional director. “The important thing is not that it went up by three incidents in Massachusetts, it’s that we still have it, and it still requires us to be steadfast in our response to it and in confronting it.’’
Yeah, you can SEE IT in the REACTION to the MOSQUES in New York and Tennessee!
Among the most disturbing patterns the audit revealed, Shulman said, was a sharp increase in anti-Semitic activity on the Internet.
“The Web makes it much easier to get anti-Semitic filth out into the mainstream,’’ he said. “It gives people the ability to sit behind the cover of their keyboard and send out things that they would be uncomfortable sharing in the light of day.’’
As opposed to the Muslim-hating, war-promoting, Zionist newspapers, huh?
See: Six Jewish Companies Own 96% of the World’s Media
Extremists have begun using Facebook and MySpace, blogs, or other websites, such as YouTube, to espouse hateful messages, Shulman said.
“Just because it’s generated on the Web makes it no less destructive,’’ Shulman said. “Ten years ago, how could anyone get something like that into perfectly reputable newspapers, for example? But now, message boards of well-known organizations can be taken over by people generating and spreading anti-Semitic hate.’’
When you find one let me know.
Also see: Twitterers Paid to Spread Israeli Propaganda
Who is taking over the message boards?
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Wow, did I ever learn a lot about Jews from the Boston Globe!
