Anthony Hopkins: [link]

Benecio del Toro: [link]

Anne Bancroft: [link]

James Coburn: [link]

Yeah, see this is why I really don't buy the "ShopRite hates our baybeeeeez!" argument. Drop the neo-Nazi middle names and the swastikas and I'm sure they'd be perfectly happy to make you a "Happy Birthday Joycelynn" or even a "Happy Birthday Adolf" cake.

Yeah, ShopRite offered to sell them a "Happy Birthday" cake and leave a space for them to write in the name, but they said no.

I'm not sure how many non-Jewish groups were invested with him -- I haven't heard very many reports mentioning non-Jewish groups.

Well, this foundation isn't Jewish, and the one I just heard about isn't, either -- although the donor is, and was friends with the Madoffs.

Actually the organization I work for was apparently named in some article, since they (Bernie and Ruth) have given us as much as $25K in past years.

Well, this foundation isn't Jewish, and the one I just heard about isn't, either -- although the donor is, and was friends with the Madoffs.

Ah. Yeah, I'd heard about JEHT. (It sometimes gets lumped in with "Jewish groups" in these articles, since the founder is Jewish.)

A whole lot of the people who had money invested with him were his friends. Something like 1/3 of the members of his country club had money in his fund. There have been some questions of conflict of interest with Yeshiva University, since he was a member of the board that decided how the endowment should be invested, and the decision was to invest a bunch of it in his fund.

Mac and I have watched santa claus is coming to town, the grinchn and now we are starting frosty. I have no internet, only blackberry and tech support couldn't help, so I have to try and get home tomorrow to wait for a technician. Now I have to figure out how to reach the facebook friend to cancel our plans.

(It sometimes gets lumped in with "Jewish groups" in these articles, since the founder is Jewish.)

I imagine the same thing will happen with my as-yet-unnamed foundation. (I just heard via text message, and can't google anything up, so I guess it's not public yet -- probably in the morning...)

But I do think there's a difference between a foundation that was started with money from Jewish people and a foundation whose main goal is supporting Jewish organizations/communities/whatever.

Ugh and my damn cat peed under the tree again. I have no idea what to do. I put a plastic bin under there to try and cover the pee area, but that didn't seem to work. At least the skirt is plastic. I think it will just come down the Sat after Christmas.

But I do think there's a difference between a foundation that was started with money from Jewish people and a foundation whose main goal is supporting Jewish organizations/communities/whatever.

Yeah, definitely. Then there are also those -- AJWS comes to mind -- that identify as Jewish, but the money goes to programs that help all different people. The articles in the Jewish press aren't all making a distinction between "Jewish groups" and "groups largely supported by Jews," and a lot of the mainstream press seems to be going to ridiculous lengths to avoid focusing on anything Jewish with a money scandal. (Which is understandable, but leading to some weirdly-phrased articles.)

Ugh, msbelle -- what, he thinks he's outside, just because there's a tree??

a lot of the mainstream press seems to be going to ridiculous lengths to avoid focusing on anything Jewish with a money scandal.

Oh jeez.