
Bad News Jews: Scammy Car Charities And Illegal Matzo Factories |
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by Jewcy Staff, January 22, 2008 |
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Kars 4 Kids: The ubiquitious posters don't say where the money's goingIn Brooklyn, 150 residents were evicted from an illegally converted loft building after the fire department discovered an "illegal matzo factory" in the basement. Apparently, the grain used in baking matzo is a threat because it's potentially combustible. The residents have no idea when they'll be allowed to return.
Meanwhile, Kars 4 Kids, a nonprofit that advertises heavily in the New York area, says it uses car donations to "provide food, clothing, education and guidance to children," but it doesn't mention that all the money is channeled into Oorah, Inc., which provides religious education to children of non-observant Jews. On Oorah's website, the Post reports, the charity brags that it has an "'80 percent success rate' teaching its clients 'to keep themselves apart from the gentiles.'"
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AmyGuth
Unbelievably, a friend of mine is one of those residents!
I'll admit that I laughed at first during our series of text messages that went something like:
"Evicted."
"Evicted? You?"
"Whole building. Illegal matzo factory in basement. Swear to g-d."
Because, really, how often do you get a text message like that? But, as I've heard how the day has unfolded for her, with zero new information, no clue how to proceed and so this a weird forced limbo, well, it is pretty horrible for her to say the least.
Now I feel like a jag for complaining about the sketchy hot water in my building.