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7-23-2009 11:39 PM
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blueridge says:
The article details this insulated and tightly regulated Syrian Jewish community, along with their financial enterprises, their interesting history and strict adherence to their religious leaders teachings:

The Syrian Jewish communities in Brooklyn and Deal are known for their ability to flourish financially in the secular world, particularly in the garment and electronics industries, while retaining centuries-old religious customs and traditions.....The Syrian Jewish community is also noted for adherence to the absolute authority of its religious leaders, and nowhere is this more evident than in a 1935 ban by Syrian rabbis against intermarriage, including people who converted to Judaism... The penalty imposed for marrying outside the faith or to a convert is severe: excommunication.
One wonders if this was a Christian community with similar traits, how it would be portrayed in the mainstream media, particularly upon such arrests.
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7-24-2009 7:03 PM
blueridge
UK Guardian article here, indicating the international crimes were money-laundering through Jewish charities (like Islamists are always accused of). If proven, it could be justly called a Jewish Mafia then with help from local government officials:

Among those arrested following were Hoboken mayor Peter Cammarano III, Secaucus mayor Dennis Elwell, Jersey City deputy mayor Leona Beldini, state legislator Daniel Van Pelt, officials in the state capital, and several Syrian-Jewish rabbis who officials said laundered illicit cash through charities they controlled.

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7-24-2009 7:20 PM
blueridge
It gets worse, trafficking in human body parts (from same UK article above):

One northern New Jersey man, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, was charged with conspiring to traffic human organs. Officials said he promised to sell to the witness's relative for $160,000 a kidney he had acquired for $10,000.
8-5-2009 11:28 PM
blueridge
local TV coverage worth seeing here, very different than national news coverage.
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