George Harrison's house

 

and he's supposed to be the spiritual one

Jews without mitzvahs, edition 100

Who was the accountant who ripped off al pacino?

The accountant was Kenneth Starr — no relation to the independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton.1 2

Starr was a Bronx-born celebrity accountant and money manager whose client list was a Hollywood Who's Who: Al Pacino, Uma Thurman, Martin Scorsese, Natalie Portman, Carly Simon, Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Lauren Bacall, Neil Simon, and Barbara Walters, among others.1 2 He ran a Ponzi-style scheme, using money from some clients' accounts to cover shortfalls in others', and reportedly pocketed as much as $59 million.2 3

Pacino says he started getting warnings around 2011 that his accountant "was not to be trusted," but his lavish spending masked the problem — a Beverly Hills mansion, a Gulfstream 550, and an entire floor of the Dorchester hotel in London.4 5 He wasn't even signing his own checks; Starr was.4 6 When Pacino finally looked, his $50 million was gone.7 8

Starr pleaded guilty in September 2010 and was sentenced in March 2011 to 7.5 years in prison.1 3 The judge, Shira Scheindlin, went lenient partly on the reasoning that his victims were rich and didn't go broke — a claim Pacino might dispute.1

The fallout reshaped Pacino's career: he took roles he didn't care about, starting with Jack and Jill, because he needed the money.7 5

Yes, Kenneth Starr was Jewish.1 2

Starr was the youngest of three sons born to a public-school principal in the South Bronx. He entered Queens College at the age of fifteen. He is Jewish.

Note from a Machon Shlomo student

Consider how insane that place was, we were supposed to get an introduction to Judaism and all we got was an overwhelming shiur on the daf without having received any background on the Talmud. That and the son in law, a 30 year old BT from Trinity College, reading the Chumash to us. All within a cold and competitive environment run by a tyrannical moron. 

We weren't taught Judaism, about mitzvahs, marriage, tefillah, halacha, Hebrew, history, philosophy. 

All done in an isolated setting without a library or community.

It was outrageous what they did to us. 

Larry Bird remembers

 “Larry Bird remembers when players that later went bankrupt made fun of him for saving his money:”

Even when I was at the top of my game, we didn't drive a Mercedes-Benz or live in million-dollar homes, things like that. When I first started playing, we bought a nice little house in the French Lick/West Baden area. It cost $125,000. We didn't run out and spend all our money because we knew there would be a time when it was over, and I wanted to have options on what we could do with our future. I never thought about retiring. I just assumed I would always work." "Some of the guys who made far less than me bought the $700,000 homes, and the ROLEXwatches, and the big luxury cars. I used to tell them, "You're crazy, you should be saving your money." They'd just laugh and make jokes about me stashing my money away. But I could see what they were doing. They were throwing away their future. So many of them were living for today and not even stopping for a minute to think about ten years down the road when their playing careers were over and the money stopped pouring in. And by the time they realized what I was telling them was true, it was too late.I can't tell you how many ex-teammates have asked me for money. It's heartbreaking for me to say no, but I do because I warned them. I told them to save."

Travel as much as you can while you're young.

 At 67, here's one piece of advice I'd give anyone under 30:

Travel as much as you can while you're young. You don't need to be rich. Fly economy. Stay in hostels. Take overnight trains. Backpack across borders. Sleep on a friend's couch. Eat street food. Get lost in places where nobody speaks your language. Leave your comfort zone and experience the world beyond the one you've always known. Dance with locals. Try unfamiliar foods. Listen to cathedral bells echo through ancient streets and hear the call to prayer drift across a crowded city. Walk through little alleyways, share meals with strangers, and make friends with people whose lives look nothing like yours. Learn how other cultures think, love, work, celebrate, and survive. Discover that people can speak different languages, follow different traditions, and believe different things while still sharing the same hopes, fears, and dreams. The world is much bigger than your hometown, your social circle, or what you see on a screen. Travel won't just give you beautiful photographs and unforgettable stories. It'll challenge your assumptions, humble you, broaden your perspective, and teach you to appreciate things you once took for granted. Don't spend your entire youth waiting until you have more money, a better job, or the perfect time. You can always earn more money, but you can't buy back the years you spent being afraid to explore. Go see the world. Meet its people. Embrace its differences. And when you return home, bring back more than souvenirs. Bring back a wider perspective, a more open heart, and a deeper understanding of humanity. The best thing travel can give you isn't a passport full of stamps. It's a mind that has expanded and a heart that has learned to see the world differently.

in defense of

 

400 feet

 

Ohio among least expensive housing cost in country. NJ and NY among highest

 NY 527,. NJ 580

Ohio 249

Be like Ohio

Alex Forbes

- Lake Erie to the North - Ohio River to the South - Tons of farming - Major steel mfg hub - Rolling hills, deep gorges, plenty of water - Some of the most fertile soil in the country - 75 state parks. Free to enter every one - Cuyahoga Valley National Park - 8 major pro teams: Browns, Bengals, Guardians, Reds, Cavs, Blue Jackets, Crew, FC Cincinnati - Reds: the first professional baseball team in America - NFL founded in Canton. Pro Football Hall of Fame is still there - 750+ golf courses - 100-mile Towpath Trail for biking and hiking - Major Universities: Ohio State, Cincinnati, Miami, Kent State, Toledo, Dayton, Xavier - Big city energy with reasonable cost of living. - Small Town America kindness and hospitality - Excellent place to raise a family - Top rated school systems - Cleveland Clinic: an elite hospital system - A day's drive from about 60% of the US population - One of the country's biggest logistics hubs in the country - Plenty of jobs: HQ for P&G, Kroger, Wendy's, Smucker's, Cardinal Health - Armstrong: first man on the moon. Glenn: first American to orbit Earth. Both Ohioans - Wright Brothers built the airplane in Dayton - Edison, born in Ohio - Home of 7 US Presidents - Cedar Point voted best amusement park in the world, over and over - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - Thriving environment for small business - 4 full seasons - Named the best state in the country by Bert Kreischer

notice how they see New York

 

Jews without mitvzos - a pattern here?

Toni Curtis (Bernie Schwartz)

 Jamie Lee Curtis’s father left her nothing. Not a dollar of his estimated $60 million.

It all went to his sixth wife. He was 73 when he married her. She was 28. He put it in writing: “I acknowledge the existence of my children, and have intentionally and with full knowledge chosen not to provide for them.” Five months before he died, Tony Curtis rewrote his will. All 5 of his surviving children were cut out. Every dollar went to Jill. His daughter Allegra said they were “blindsided” and that their father had been “influenced.” His eldest daughter Kelly took it to court. The court rejected the case. Jill’s answer: “Tony was very specific in his wishes.” She said he told the children himself. Keep this part. A will doesn’t care who you’re related to. It only cares whose name is on it.

Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz at the Fifth Avenue Hospital corner of East 105th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan, the first of three boys born to Helen (née Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz.^[1][2]

His parents were Jewish immigrants from Hungary

Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch) left an estimated $50 million estate. His will has one clause for his sons: "I have intentionally excluded Gary, Ronald, Anthony, Christopher, Scott and Joseph and their descendants as beneficiaries of my estate, it being my intention that they receive no benefits."

In the video below, you hear Jerry Lewis himself, and the daughter he never acknowledged. Everything went to his second wife, Sandy, and their daughter Danielle, adopted 25 years earlier. In one of his last interviews he was asked what he was most proud of in his life. "My daughter." The six sons he had with his first wife, Patti Palmer, got nothing. A family law attorney says he could do whatever he wanted. He was of sound mind, and he had his reasons. There was one more child. Susan Lewis, a daughter he never acknowledged, was found homeless on the streets of Philadelphia two weeks before the report aired. Asked if she was entitled to some of the $50 million, she said, "I think that I would deserve something, especially in my situation." Like her brothers, she is apparently getting nothing.

Lewis was born Joseph Levitch on March 16, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, to a Jewish family.

jews without mitzvos

 Two parts to this.

1. Was Barry Siegel her manager? Yes.
Barry Siegel was Lisa Marie Presley's longtime business/financial manager, running her affairs through his firm, Provident Financial Management, from 1993 onward. He was also co-trustee of the Promenade Trust (the Elvis estate trust) alongside Priscilla. That ended badly: in February 2018 Lisa Marie sued him for $100 million, claiming he turned her $100 million inheritance into $14,000 through "reckless and negligent mismanagement," and he countersued saying she was simply a spendthrift. She fired him and his firm. The 2016 trust amendment that removed both Priscilla and Siegel as co-trustees and substituted Riley and Benjamin Keough is the exact document at the center of the post-death legal fight.

2. Is he Jewish? Very likely, but not explicitly confirmed in press coverage.
Here's the evidence:

• Surname: Siegel is a classic Ashkenazi Jewish name (from the German/Yiddish for "seal").
• Career lineage: he came up at Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman, then co-founded his own firm as Siegel & Feldstein — that entire world of LA business management was heavily Jewish.
• He sits on the board of governors of Cedars-Sinai, the LA hospital with deep Jewish roots.
• Born and raised in Pasadena, married to a woman named Pattie.

What you won't find is a mainstream source stating flatly "Siegel is Jewish" — no bar mitzvah mention, no quoted Jewish-press profile. So the honest answer is: almost certainly Jewish by background, based on name and milieu, but treat it as strong inference rather than confirmed fact.