Reply To: Here we go again with alleged theft of public funds

Again, the issue is as much an inyan of perception versus reality. For reasons most understand, the public and media seem to exploit a hundreds of year old Shylock stereotype of yidden as more prone to commit crimes invovling fraud, theft, tax evasion etc. (aka “they are all ganavim”..) Each episode of a yid in chassidish or yeshivish lvush being dragged off to jail only reinforces that stereotype nothwithstanding the fact the the real number of such instantces of proven fraud are small. i