Twenty-four hours before the start of Passover, Rabbi David Pinto paid a short visit to the compound where his institutions are situated, in Ashdod. The rabbi hadn't been in Israel for several months, and at the entrance 100 of his disciples gathered to welcome him. Speaking in a quiet tone, his Hebrew marked by the hint of a French accent, Pinto whipped up for them a cocktail of tales of anti-Semitism and...
- By Elijah the Charitable
- 11 Jun 2012
- 08:26AM
I have no position on the Pinto investigations, and am not involved at all. But your implicit baseline assumptions in this article are exceedingly biased. No major fundraising in the Jewish world occurs at less than a 33% haircut; almost all gala dinners exceed well over 50%. There is nothing extraordinary here, it is simply Jewish philanthropy at its current deplorable standard.
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