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...heterogeneous group of investors who suddenly found themselves unwitting participants in the scandal. The list of partners included several high- profile companies, such as Rapid-American (investment in Boesky: $5 million) and National Can ($6.5 million). Prominent individuals ranged from Manhattan Investor Jeffry Picower ($28 million) to Martin Peretz, editor in chief of the liberal weekly New Republic ($250,000). Even the British Water Authority Superannuation Fund had chipped in $10 million...
...Peretz owes his readers an explanation as to why a Machiavellian politician who lives and runs in a non-Jewish district might pretend he was Jewish when he was not. To say that his Machiavellian calculus is "unfathomable" is either to acknowledge that it was not Machiavellian at all, or that the underlying facts are simply wrong...
IHAVE NO IDEA, nor do I care, what Bachrach's theology is (if he has one), any more than I care what Peretz's is. What is disgraceful--and dangerous--about Peretz's raising the issue of whether Bachrach's "really" a Jew is its implication for the direction of American political campaigns...
...Peretz's interjection of religion into politics were an isolated instance of the perversion of the political process, it could be dismissed as little more than personal pique, or as a gossipy reflection of who is in and who is out of the Peretz household. (If I wasn't out before this, I am now.) But Peretz's insistance that public candidates meet parochial religious tests reflects a growing trend around the country...
...United States Constitution provides that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for any office..." Neither the New Republic nor Pat Robertson are bound by the Constitution. But Martin Peretz's attempt to "excommunicate" George Bachrach--from the Eighth District and from his Jewish heritage--will make it just a bit easier for the religious right to achieve its goal of undercutting that important charter of religious and non-religious liberty...