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Adrienne Asch, director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University, said Jewish communities must confront an ethos that seeks to protect wrongdoers from outside scrutiny. “It is time for Jews to face the fact that there are criminals among them, just as there are criminals everywhere else,” she said. “We should not be protecting criminals for fear of persecution. We should be speaking out for what is fair and just.”

Tell it to Richard Joel, the president of your university.

He still hasn’t faced the fact that Bernard Madoff and Ezra Merkin held among the highest positions of authority at your university for years, and that no one ever questioned that. Only when criminal investigations proceeded against these men did your university respond, and it responded by erasing them from its web pages and pretending they didn’t exist.

Nor has Joel faced the fact that a number of the remaining Yeshiva trustees — all male, of course, wouldn’t want to pollute things with a woman (see the post directly below this one)– at your university seem still to be involved in financial conflicts of interest with one another.

Really, Professor Asch. Begin at home. Start by looking around you.

Margaret Soltan, July 29, 2009 9:28AM
Posted in: conflict of interest

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