Accroding to some of the Orthodox/fundamentalist Jews I’ve met here, bending halakah and Torah to justify the trafficking is now a growing sport. WTF? It’s JUSTIFIED? These are same mamzers who say they can’t donate an organ, because to do so would “mutilate” the body, and therefore not OK under Jewish Law. yet, they see no hypocrisy in paying people to ‘mutilaite’ themselves at a price. I grew up on the West Coast, a “Reformed” Jew, therefore not a ‘good enough Jew’ for the East coast Jews, yet, I never heard of anything as disgraceful as this.
It’s right up there with saying torture is ok under jewish Law, because it’s to save lives.
I’d rather have a rasher of bacon.
‘Organ trafficking’: Rabbis arrested over massive crime ring
“FBI officials painted a picture of brazen criminality.
The money laundering ring allegedly stretched from New Jersey and New York to Israel and Switzerland, while politicians easily exploited loopholes in state law to disguise bribes as campaign contributions.
Although New Jersey is more famous for a history of Italian Mafia families, it was Jewish clergy who allegedly played a central role in the crime network.
Authorities raided several synagogues and among those arrested was the chief rabbi of Syrian Jews in the United States.
One rabbi, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, was charged with conspiring to broker the sale of a human kidney for transplant.
Marra said Rosenbaum’s “business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $US10,000 ($A12,300), which he would turn around and sell for 160,000 dollars.”
He’d allegedly been peddling kidneys for a decade….
“This is “not about politics, certainly not about religion. It is about crime. It is about criminals who use politics and religion.”
