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...again, a TIME article has fallen into the trap of depicting Israeli settlements as the main obstacle to peace in the Middle East [July 27]. The key problem continues to be the unwillingness of the Palestinian leadership and most Arab states in the region to accept Israel as a Jewish state. This is a much more fundamental issue than whether someone in Efrat or Ma'aleh Adumim can build an addition onto their house. Henry Goldberg, CHICAGO...
Meticulous and ever more mysterious as his fame grew, Madoff hawked his investment fund to a largely Jewish clientele, eventually sucking in large European banks too. Promising unwavering 10%-to-12% returns whatever the market, Madoff became known as "the Jewish T-bill," as in risk-free. Of course, there was no investing. For more than two decades, he used an ever larger stream of money from new investors to pay off earlier ones. His résumé supplied a perfect cover: former head of Nasdaq, a tech wizard who brought computerization to Wall Street...
...sights: Fairfield Greenwich, a tony hedge fund that funneled more than $7 billion into Madoff's pockets, and J. Ezra Merkin, a major-league Manhattan investor who received a staggering $470 million in fees from Madoff. Merkin vacuumed up $2.4 billion from a veritable Who's Who of Jewish New York, including Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel and Yeshiva University. "You were nothing more than a glorified mailbox," one of Merkin's investors fumed...
...still unresolved role played by Madoff's wife and sons in the scam. The author is more interested than Arvedlund in Madoff the man and in the emotional aspect of this financial soap opera. He has perfect pitch when it comes to the agony and shame of the Jewish community for finding such a gonif (Yiddish for thief) in its midst...
...Palestinians turned into refugees by the creation of Israel in 1948 be allowed to return to their confiscated land and homes. Successive Israeli governments have refused to recognize a right of return for the refugees, claiming that the return of millions of Palestinians would soon outnumber Israel's Jewish majority. The conference affirmed the principle of the right of return for some 4.5 million Palestinian refugees scattered mostly throughout Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the Gulf States...