{"id":14752,"date":"2009-12-21T10:41:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T18:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=14752"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:41:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T18:41:25","slug":"seeking-justice-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=14752","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Justice In Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benji Kornbluth emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDear Luke Ford,<\/p>\n<p>I was wondering if I can ask your help on a matter. <\/p>\n<p>I live in Israel and work in the Real-Estate field (it&#8217;s tough and making a living for me isn&#8217;t easy), last year tho a very wealthy orthodox Jew from Beverly Hills purchased a $3M holiday home here in Jerusalem with my help. For many months however he refused to pay the agents fees tho; I finally managed to get him into Beis Din, and they gave a PSAK for him to pay a reduced amount (PESHARA) and he STILL WONT PAY.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the saga he has had me threatened with physical violence and mutilations a number of times, cursed me bitterly and spread vicious false rumours about me to my neighbours and friends.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is that he&#8217;s a huge philanthropist (I would hate to call him a Ba&#8217;al Tzedaka) so most Rabanim are frightened to say a word to him.<br \/>\nHe has lied to some prominent Gedolim about the case, they have themselves then been embarrassed by him when I confronted them.<br \/>\nThe point is that this guy is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and I have a PSAK against him to pay a measly $38,500 to me and my brother, both guys in learning here in Eretz Yisrael.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I turn to you is because the only way I managed to get him to sit in a Beis Din is because I threatened to destroy his name online, that provoked an immediate response and got him in the hot seat (where he lied through his teeth throughout the Din Torah BTW).<\/p>\n<p>So if you think you could help me to put pressure on this scumbag and finally get him to pay up so that I can pay me rent, groceries, utilities etc. it would be enormously appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benji Kornbluth emails: Dear Luke Ford, I was wondering if I can ask your help on a matter. I live in Israel and work in the Real-Estate field (it&#8217;s tough and making a living for me isn&#8217;t easy), last year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=14752\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[2437,20568,20569,822,950,16643],"class_list":["post-14752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerusalem","tag-eretz-yisrael","tag-false-rumours","tag-justice-in-jerusalem","tag-luke-ford","tag-orthodox-jew","tag-psak"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}