by Michael HoffmanCopyright © 2008. All Rights Reserved Bernard L. Madoff has run off with the store so to speak -- the store of cash that is, which Judaics from Steven Spielberg to Elie Wiesel had stashed with this agent of of the world's second oldest profession, whose patron is that hoary old ra...

Every year in October people like Michael Weiss (see below) and a slew of other rabbinic apologists spin Yom Kippur's Kol Nidrei (also spelled "Nidre") absolution of vows into a "context"-based confutation of assertions that it allows Talmudists to cheat in business, politics and religion by permitt...