| | Doctrinal disputes impede progress yet again But U.N. action is unlikely, and more in the news Former NYC mayor says congressman won't follow in his footsteps Jews for Jesus-type group tries, fails to send books to DSK  | |  Rabbi Marc Schneier's Hampton Synagogue caters to New York's wealthiest at their summer playground. As his personal life spun out of control and into the tabloids, they returned the favor by closing ranks around him. January 2009 was not a time for extravagance, and no one knew it better than New York's wealthiest Jews. The scope of Bernie Madoff's vast Ponzi scheme was just becoming clear, and the world's financial markets were reeling. Wall Street bigwigs were voluntarily canceling their bonuses. Upper East Side doyennes were concealing their luxury purchases behind plain white bags. So, it raised some eyebrows when Marc Schneier, the so-called "rabbi to the stars," publicized the 50th birthday present he'd received from his wife, Tobi: a 400-pound endangered Asian lion, resident at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, which was dubbed "Rabbi Marc" in exchange for an undisclosed donation to fund its care. The Schneiers—she looking svelte and blonde in a leopard-print Michael Kors sheath, he smiling in a dark suit and one of his customary Hermès ties—were pictured in press photos posed next to the cat, which clawed at the glass walls of its enclosure. More  | Robert Pinsky's career-spanning Selected Poems highlights his movement from meditative formalist to Whitmanesque bard More |  | A new Facebook game, created with help from an American Jewish history professor, introduces players to the complex history of immigration in America More | | | | This email was sent to you by Tablet Magazine. To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add digest@tabletmag.com to your address book. To unsubscribe to this email, reply to this email with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Tablet Magazine | 295 Lafayette Street, Suite 501 | New York, NY 10012 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend | |
