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Last month, when federal agents arrested five rabbis from the Syrian Jewish community, including Chief Rabbi Saul Kassin, on charges that they used religious charities to launder money for their congregants, some were reminded of a similar 2007 case involving the Spinka sect. Yesterday, the Grand Rabbi of Spinka, Naftali Tzi Weisz, entered his guilty ...

Today, Tablet Magazine features the first half of Douglas Century’s multi-part article about Israel’s new and “far more violent, ruthless, and young” generation of organized criminals. For the weekly Vox Tablet podcast, Sara Ivry speaks with Century and Century’s guide through the Tel Aviv neighborhood that headquarters many mafiosi. Allison Hoffman, who covered last week’s ...

Tablet Magazine’s Allison Hoffman has been covering the arrest of Rabbi Saul Kassin, the de facto head of America’s Syrian Jewish community. He was apprehended yesterday in connection with a wide-ranging corruption investigation that implicated 43 other people, including four other rabbis and several New Jersey politicians. The FBI has credited Solomon Dwek, the scion ...