Bingo! One Man's Battle to Buy Up Jerusalem
NEW YORK -- Many men have conquered Jerusalem -- Saladin, Allenby, Dayan -- but Irving Moskowitz is the first to defend his campaign in the language of the American civil rights movement -- and the first to finance his conquest in part by operating a bingo parlor.
A physician and real estate developer whose charitable foundation owns one of California's largest bingo operations, Dr. Moskowitz is emerging as the linchpin of the increasingly desperate effort by right-wing Jews to buy up property in Arab-dominated East Jerusalem in advance of peace talks.
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When Jews Sweat Labor
BROOKLYN -- In a cold and windowless Williamsburg factory that houses the S&W Knitting Mill, the garment workers -- mostly Hispanic women -- smile as their boss, Issachar Weiss, walks through. "It's a real nice place," one employee tells a visiting reporter. But after work, when the bosses aren't around, workers tell a different story. "We want a free union," one worker says in Spanish. "But they won't let us have one."
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Secret Will of Rebbe Confounds Followers
NEW YORK -- The Lubavitcher Rebbe, whose followers believe him to be the Messiah, is harboring a most un-Messiah-like secret -- in 1987, sources tell the Forward, the Rebbe made out a will.
The critically ill Rebbe wrote the will after winning a nasty court battle against his nephew, who claimed ownership of a library of priceless Lubavitcher books. According to several well-placed sources, the Rebbe, chastened by the experience, reorganized his movement's legal structure and wrote the will to protect his material goods from claims he feared others would make when he died.
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Kahanists Plot Weapons Deal
NEW YORK -- A top leader of the radical group Kahane Chai says his organization will redouble its efforts to smuggle weapons to its allies in the territories, now that the Israeli government is cracking down on armed settlers affiliated with the Kahane movement in the wake of the Hebron massacre.
Prime Minister Rabin, who already has some extremist leaders on the run, may in fact be running them all the way to America, the Kahane Chai leader, who asked to be referred to only as Mordechai, told the Forward. Many extremist settler leaders are, like Goldstein, American citizens.
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