[Fredslist] Follow up - Important News Story

[IrisWolinsky at aol.com]

Hi Gothamites,
 
  A number of you read with interest my good friend Jeff Lunden's  breaking 
news story in the Washington Post of Jan. 2010, about a rabbi who  
misrepresented having rescued torahs from the Holocaust, then selling  them to 
various synagogues and organizations....  See update  below - that article led to 
the rabbi being indicted.  The radio  interview ( 5 min.) was last night, 
but I just heard it on npr.org -  Programs - All Things Considered - click 
Aug 25 on calendar and scroll down  near end of list for Jewish Indiana Jones 
interview with Jeff.  Also below  is link to Jeff's follow-up W. Post 
article yesterday.   

 
Iris

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Fwd: On All Things Considered this evening

  
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 From: jefflunden@

To: jefflunden@
Sent: 8/25/2011 12:53:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: On All Things  Considered this evening



Hi all - 

I've got a very different story on  tonight's All Things Considered.  
Robert Siegel is interviewing me about  the recent Federal indictment of Rabbi 
Menachem Youlus for fraud.  He  sold Torahs he claimed to have rescued - often 
in a very dramatic manner -  from European communities which had been 
destroyed in the Holocaust.  He  has been dubbed the "Jewish Indiana Jones."  
Dozens of synagogues and  donors purchased the scrolls, believing his stories 
to be true.  It  turned out they were all lies and that Youlus personally 
pocketed hundreds of  thousands of dollars.  He's even charged with embezzling 
from his own  charitable foundation!  The investigation was begun after 
Martha Wexler  and I wrote an expose in the Washington Post Magazine about him 
in January  2010.

Here's my article from the Washington Post  today:

_http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rabbi-indicted-in-torah-scam/2011/08/24
/gIQA7OGucJ_story.html_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rabbi-indicted-in-torah-scam/2011/08/24/gIQA7OGucJ_story.html) 

And  here's the story Martha and I wrote in 2010:

_http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR201001220
3257.html_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/22/AR2010012203257.html) 

Been  quite a  ride.

Best,

Jeff



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