Calculating the ’shande’ factor
This week in the NJJN, I break down the fallout from the Madoff investment swindle:
Earlier this year, when Eliot Spitzer still held the title of America’s most shameful governor, I urged the Jewish world to develop a universal standard for measuring the damage done to Jews by disgraced fellow Jews – what your bubbe and mine calls a shande fer de goyim. At the time, I thought we might calculate the shande factor in Abramoff Units. But that’s the old math. Today we’d have to measure calumny on the Madoff Scale.
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