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February 10, 2012

Behind the Holocaust Torah Scrolls Scam

Menachem Rosensaft, Huffington Post

I cannot for the life of me decide, with apologies to Shakespeare's Lafeu in "All's Well That Ends Well," whether Rick Zitelman is a knave or a fool. Regardless, he has a great deal to answer for and should not be allowed to evade public excoriation.

Zitelman is co-founder and president of Save a Torah, Inc., the purportedly charitable foundation through which the now disgraced Wheaton, Md., bookstore owner Menachem Youlus peddled what Youlus represented as Holocaust-era Torah scrolls he claimed to have "rescued" at great personal peril.

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