Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

No, I didn’t say it. George Bush did. There is this and much more in Connie Bruck’s eye-opening New Yorker expose of Sheldon Adelson’s life as a right-wing political wheeler-dealer and gambling tycoon. The profile is highly unflattering though it does attempt to place some of Adelson’s philanthropy in a positive context. [...]

Sheldon Adelson: ‘Oy, those meshuganeh Democrats!’ (Alex Hofford/European Pressphoto)
The NY Times writes today that the new neocon group, Freedom’s Watch (FW) is being funded by right-wing Jewish donors. The original idea for the group was conceived at a Republican Jewish Coalition meeting and one of its key funders is Las Vegas gambling king, Sheldon [...]