{"id":9489,"date":"2009-07-25T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T05:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2009-07-25T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T05:11:08","slug":"brooklyn-blogs-buzzing-about-arrested-rabbis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9489","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Blogs Buzzing About Arrested Rabbis"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On a blog catering to young Syrian Jews in Brooklyn (where almost everyone has a blog), one comment seemed to crystallize the mix of puzzlement and dark humor emerging in some parts of their community on Friday, the day after the F.B.I.<\/a> arrested five Sephardic rabbis on money-laundering charges.<\/p>\n

The five were netted in an investigation that relied heavily on the work of a confidential informer, reputed to be a prominent Sephardic Jewish businessman who — as everyone in the tight-knit enclave knew since the F.B.I. arrested him in 2006 — faced a long prison term for financial fraud.<\/p>\n

“Who deals with a guy that the feds are already watching?” the contributor wrote on an inconspicuous blog, whose name and Internet address the blog’s administrators asked a reporter not to identify, saying that the protection of contributors’ and readers’ identities was crucial in a religious community where violations of communal privacy codes were not tolerated.<\/p>\n

It was a question repeated Friday in many forms: Some asked it to point out that the rabbis clearly considered their actions legal. Others raised it as evidence of the rabbis’ naïveté in the ways of the world: How else to explain the lack of suspicion with which they were said to have dealt with the reputed informer, Solomon Dwek?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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