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Related: About this forumIsrael's richest rabbis become savvy businessmen
NETIVOT One summer night, on the outskirts of a sleepy desert town, a whos who of Israels elite gathered for an annual feast to honor a rabbi whose gaze is said to pierce the soul.
Hes Rabbi Yaacov Israel Ifargan. But he is better known as, simply, the X-ray.
Over the past few decades, he and dozens of other rabbis have carefully positioned themselves at the fulcrum of Israeli power and influence. They have attracted throngs of adherents most notably some of the countrys top business moguls, who pay top shekel for an audience with their rabbi to solicit blessings and discuss business matters.
These magnates have helped fuel the rise of a rabbinic aristocracy whose members have channeled the donations they receive into multi-million-dollar empires. After gaining experience dishing out advice to Israeli tycoons, the rabbis have become shrewd businessmen themselves, managing hefty investments in stocks and real estate at home and abroad with much of their earnings allegedly kept far from the watchful eyes of Israeli tax collectors.
http://www.fdlreporter.com/viewart/20120715/FON04/307150096/Israel-s-richest-rabbis-become-savvy-businessmen
I don't know what to make of this, I just find it strange/interesting/troublesome.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)a young rabble rouser was nailed to a cross because he openly challenged the money changers in the temple. my, my how things never seem to change.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Though to be fair, it's not particularly gender linked that I can see.
King_David
(14,851 posts)It always comes back to that.
Why?
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... being "completed"
Give in to the dark-side.
King_David
(14,851 posts)No ?
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... Lenny Bruce let the cat out of the bag years ago.
We killed him, because he wouldn't become a doctor.
King_David
(14,851 posts)75% became doctors. The other 25% losers became lawyers .
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)To a Protestant ... a foetus becomes a human at the time of birth
To a Catholic ... a foetus becomes a human at the time of conception
To a Jew ... a foetus becomes a human the day it graduates medical school
shira
(30,109 posts)choie
(4,107 posts)break into television a la Billy Graham, Creflo Dollar or John Hagee?