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bags as well as money laundering.
"It's a shame that he's caught up in
son-ie misunderstanding," said his
attorney. "Despite his difficult circum-
stances, he remains confident that the
system of justice will prevail."
Federal prosecutors are alleging that
Ben Haim received checks that ranged
in value "from tens of thousands dol-
lars up to $160,000," made payable to a
charity associated with his synagogue
in Deal.
The Monmouth County beachfront
community is a summertime destina-
tion for many members of Brooklyn's
75,000-strong Syrian-Jewish commu-
nity who own homes there.
Marra said the cooperating wit-
ness "was able to pick up the cash
and bring it back to Rabbi Ben Haim.
Rabbi Ben Haim would give him back
approximately 90 percent of the face
value of the bank check."
According to the complaint, the
checks came to Ben Haim from an
unnamed business associate in Israel,
"who he had worked with for years."
"The rings were international in
scope, connected to Brooklyn, Deal,
Israel and Switzerland," said Marra.
"They trafficked in cleaning dirty
money from all over the world."
The complaint said another Israeli
who is under arrest, Levi Deutsch,
was a high-level source of cash from
overseas:'
Other "similar circles of money
launderers" operated separately in
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Human Kidneys
In a separate complaint that grew
out of the probe, federal officials are
charging a Brooklyn man, Levy Itzak
Rosenbaum, with trafficking in the sale
of human kidneys.
"He would pay people desperate for
money $10,000 to donate a kidney, then
charge recipients $160,000 for the kid-
ney," Marra charged. The complaint said
Rosenbaum has been brokering kidneys
for the past 10 years.
The charges somewhat echo a case
involving the spiritual leader of the
Spinka Chasidic sect in December 2007,
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Brooklyn and Deal "but occasionally
co-mingled activities and partici-
pants," the prosecutor said.
"In most cases, the rings were led by
rabbis who used charitable, nonprofit
entities connected to their synagogues
to 'wash' money they understood came
from illegal activities:' said a press
release issued by Marra's office.
According to Marra, prosecutors
have airtight evidence, including audio
and video recordings of their witness
soliciting and receiving bribes.
Attorneys for the rabbis are already
preparing strategies to discredit those
recordings.
Organ Donation Incentives
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This is a time not for self-flagel-
lation, but for self-reflection and to
increase good deeds. It is a time to
look inward and consider how we
personally would behave.
If your life depended on getting a
kidney that wasn't otherwise avail-
able, would you conduct business
with Mr. Rosenbaum? I would.
Would you prevent one of the 13
deaths taking place today among
those in line for a kidney by donating
one of yours? Would you do so for
compensation? I'd do neither.
But given an incentive, perhaps
others would. Clearly the incentive to
save a life isn't enough, or synagogues
would be sponsoring kidney drives
alongside their blood drives.
It would help to know that accord-
ing to the halachic authority Rabbi
Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, selling a
kidney is not only permissible, it is a
mitzvah.
Auerbach wrote that "even if the
person selling his kidney is poor (and
needs the money for himself) or to
pay off his debts, since he obtains this
money by saving the life of another
Jew, he will certainly be doing a mitz-
vah. This is true even if he would not
have donated his kidney only to save
life?'
That it is a good deed to save life,
even for compensation, is a Jewish
value we should embrace in response
to the chilul HaShem, desecration of
God's name, of this crisis.
Even the most tightly regulated sys-
tem that creates incentives for donors
would save lives, reduce the shortages
that promote the black market and
level the playing field by helping all
potential recipients, not just those
who can afford a trip to Tennessee,
Kidney Village or Brooklyn.
❑
Jeff Stier is associate director of the
American Council on Science and
Health in New York.