Theory:
"I therefore the intrinsic weakness of individualistic societies when they host them in tribal groups. The wealth and the benefits provided by these companies, instead of being used sparingly and recirculated for all individuals are hijacked by tribalism for their own benefit and that of their clan. "(source )
Practice:
"Three mayors, twenty-six elected representatives and local officials, five rabbis ... In all, 44 people were arrested Thursday in New Jersey at a major anti-corruption operation for pell-mell laundering money, bribes, kickbacks and organ trafficking.
Even in that State which provides the framework for the television series The Sopranos, dedicated to the Mafia, and where 130 people were arrested for corruption since 2001, the case is breathtaking. Three hundred police had been mobilized on Thursday to conduct the operation, carried out almost simultaneously at 54 places in New York and New Jersey.
Investigations into this vast network of corruption that would have ramifications to Israel and Switzerland have started ten years ago. The investigation was relaunched with the fraudulent check of $ 25 million of Solomon Dwek, a real estate developer arrested in May 2006. He decides to cooperate with police. Without
hide his troubles, this son of a rabbi well-known Syrian Jewish community of Deal, a small town on the coast of New Jersey, asks for help to various people for his fortune to escape bankruptcy. A network of money laundering, which involves three rabbis from Brooklyn, two in New Jersey and a Swiss banker, is taking place. Checks totaling $ 3 million, ostensibly for work, are recycled, less a commission.
The clearest example of this utter lack of ethics is probably the discovery of an organ trafficking. One of the suspects arrested in Brooklyn told Solomon Dwek, who said request a kidney to a relative of one of her colleagues, he managed this kind of transaction "for tens of years." Rabbi Izhak Levy-Rosenbaum said he could buy a kidney 10 000 dollars in Israel and then sell 160,000 dollars (about 130,000 euros) in the United States. "(Source )
arrest of suspects in a massive case corruption in New Jersey (USA)
Theory: "There, individualism is very good ... in a homogenous society; a society where everyone knows the rules and applies them. The problem is that most non-European companies operate completely differently. In these societies it is thought less in interest than that of his tribe ...."
Practice: "These arrests have shed unexpected light on the Syrian Jewish community, which has always lived in isolation rest of society. Moreover, none of Syrian Jews whom we approached were willing to answer our questions. "These are just allegations! These people are innocent until proven guilty" protests Yosef Reinman, a rabbi and writer, who, although not the Syrian Jewish community works with the last ten years ... Syrian Jews live below the all-powerful authority of their rabbis, which penalize marriage outside the EU (including with Jewish or converted from other denominations) by excommunication. "Everything is meant to preserve the blood," said Jonathan Sarna, professor of history at Brandeis University. "(Source in English)
