It seems Rabbi Henry I. Sobel wants in ill gotten gains action.

A man from Sao Paulo, Brazil, was arrested Friday on charges of retail theft, police said.

An employee at Louis Vuitton called police at about 12:30 p.m. to report a customer behaving suspiciously. A review of the store's surveillance video indicated the man picked up a tie, folded it, then left the shop empty-handed, police said.

Police saw the man, later identified as Henry I. Sobel, 63, walking in the 200 block of Worth Avenue. Sobel denied taking anything or being in Louis Vuitton, but then offered to pay for the tie even as he continued to deny taking it, police said. He then admitted taking the tie and gave police permission to retrieve it from his car, police said.

Sobel produced a bag with four other ties from Louis Vuitton, Giorgio's, Gucci and Giorgio Armani, and said he had taken the ties without paying for them, police said.

He was arrested and charged with retail theft. The total value of the ties was $680.

Sobel was taken to the Palm Beach County Jail and released Saturday on $3,000 bond.

— MARGIE KACOHA

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/content/news/brieftheft329.html

And the Thieving Rabbi is Boring Here.

NEWS it's not.
First you take D.C. Then you take New York.

Perhaps you'd enjoy this item more.

"Too good for gridlock"
Have you ever been driving and find yourself passing what looks to be an unmarked police car (perhaps a black Crown Vic with tinted windows, some aftermarket lights, and a couple extra antennae)? Do you then experience a heart palpitation (or two) and hit breaks, bracing yourself for an ensuing pullover for speeding. Then, alas, the car isn't an unmarked and the driver is an octogenarian with a passion for Ham radio and large American vehicles? Well, here's NYC "reckless rabbi"/diamond dealer/Al Franken voice-double who has his own set of road rules and has certainly caused his share of palpitations (we're guessing especially when he's going down the wrong way of a one-way street).
http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/misc/2007/01/29/rabbi_too_good_for_gr...

Hey Uncle Fester !
How's that jug comin' along ? Still festerin' ?

Funny coincidence -goofin' on 'uncles' and all, I just posted
a funky little piece about another infamous "Sobel" over here:
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1080#comment-4724

Talk about a monkey's uncle...
( C'mon, they gotta be related ! )

Small Woild, ain't it ?

"Can ya rip me one off with a Star of David ?"
(turns out this clown is no petty tie thief )

US President George W. Bush
with Israel Singer, ( WJC Policy Council Chairman )
and Rabbi Henry I. Sobel ! ! ! ( LAJC Affairs Chairman )
( with Dutchboy haircut, burgundy beaner )

from World Jewish Congress Newsletter:

WJC leaders raised the plight of small Jewish communities
in Latin America with President George W. Bush
in a meeting in Brasilia. (Summer 2006 Report )

Israel Singer, along with LAJC Inter-religious Affairs Chairman Rabbi Henry I. Sobel, told Bush, who was in the region promoting democracy, that the way Jews are treated can be “a kind of barometer, a bellwether of when things are going badly in South America.”

The WJC leaders expressed concern for the Jews in Venezuela, in the face of social unrest fanned by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. “The need for a scapegoat is more keenly felt,” said Sobel. Late last year, the WJC protested when Venezuelan police raided a Jewish school in Caracas, causing uproar among Jews across Latin America.--

also see first paragraph 'Brazil', with front face -
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/publications/wjcreport/06summer/holoc...

http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=31447
Brazil Rabbi Accused of Tie Theft Hospitalized

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/34761.stm
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/34761.stm
( sorry, looks like the photo was pulled, great story though )

Rabbi Sobel Prefers his Shekels like this here:
<-my technology is faiiing here...see der link

Rabbi Henry Sobel shows off a box of jewelry and a book found in the safe

Nazi gold vault opened in Brazil

Rabbi Henry Sobel shows off a box of jewelry and a book found in the safe
A bank vault containing more than $4 million worth of property allegedly stolen from victims of the holocaust has been opened in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.

The contents - including cash, gold bars and jewellery - are thought to have been brought to Brazil by Nazis who fled Germany at the end of the Second World War.

The hoard was deposited in the name of Albert Blume, a German who came to Brazil before the Second World War.

He is alleged to have acted as a banker for other Nazis who fled to South America later.

That is the opinion of the special commission set up by the Brazilian Government to investigate the Nazi presence in the country after 1945.

Despite the fact that Brazil sent troops to fight alongside the Allies in Europe, the commission has concluded that the government also allowed eight fleeing Nazis to settle in the country.

Albert Blume died some time ago. But his family denies that he had anything to do with the Nazi party after his arrival in Brazil.

They say the money in the vault is not the property of Holocaust victims.

The government commission says it will run chemical tests on the hoard to try to establish exactly who the property belongs to. It is also hoping that Mr Blume's diary, also recovered from the vault, will shed some light on the situation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/34761.stm

Brazil rabbi accused of tie theft hospitalized
30 Mar 2007 20:49:45 GMT

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 30 (Reuters) - Brazil's best-known rabbi, who was charged with shoplifting in Florida last week, entered hospital on Friday for what doctors called a mood disorder after using drugs that may cause confusion and amnesia.

Rabbi Henry Sobel asked for a suspension from his duties as chief of Sao Paulo Rabbinate on Thursday after media reports he had been charged with stealing expensive ties during a trip to Florida.

Sobel was a dogged opponent of Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship and is a prominent public figure.

The Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital in Sao Paulo said in a statement Sobel was admitted "due to an episode of mood disorder, represented by a lack of emotional control and altered behavior."

It said he had been taking large quantities of drugs to treat severe insomnia that "cause potential states of mental confusion and amnesia".

Sobel said on Thursday he was never arrested during his trip and denied the charges, according to Globo news agency.

He later issued a vaguer statement that read: "I have never had an intention to steal any object in all my life. Personally I am used to confronting crises and accusations from which I can defend myself. I only cannot allow the moral values I have always defended to be disqualified."

Palm Beach County police said on the department's Web site that a Henry Sobel, 63, was charged with retail theft in multiple locations, and posted a picture of the man arrested that resembles the rabbi along with his Sao Paulo address.

The man was arrested last Friday after a surveillance camera in a Louis Vuitton shop showed him picking up a tie and then leaving empty-handed. Four other expensive ties were found in his car. The total value of the ties was $680.

Sobel was released the following day on $3,000 bail.

www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30306894.htm

If someone would kindly explain how one uses underlining/bolding/embedded links etc I'd be full of grate. I see them HTML tags and am guessing < strong > is a bolder, < ul > der underliner, etc. Ta.

The insane Dr. Josef Mengele, ( played by Gregory Peck ),
could have been one of those "8 fleeing Nazis" who ripped off the treasure, to pay for his rabid eugenics project, and clone
a world full of blue-eyed Hitler boys -( the "Boys" From Brazil )

Too bad the real-life Nazi Hunter - Simon Wiesenthal
( modeled as ' Ezra Lieberman' by Sir Lawrence Olivier )
is no longer in circulation, to collaborate with Rabbi Sobel
in his brazen, Brazilian "Shakedown for Shoah Shekels".

The Doberman scene between Mengele and Lieberman is
a must see, as is the whole ridiculous movie, which was
a major coup for "the Holocaust Industry".

Simon Wiesenthal - ( R I P - 12-31-1908 / 9-20-2005 )
http://www.amishnews.com/amisharticles/Boys%20from%20Brazil.jpg

Quas, if my mind's not entirely addled, did Dr. Mengelepeck go ballistic on Col. Rauff for failure to follow through. That would be THIS http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1064 Col. Rauf, no?

Fester - I don't know, it's a voluminous article, I'll look into it.

But the following excerpt alone discredits the entire piece:

When Heydrich was appointed governor of occupied Czechoslovakia, Rauff accompanied him to Prague as his technical assistant. He returned to Berlin in June 1942, after Heydrich's assassination by the Czech resistance. Rauff was appointed head of the SS Technical Department and was responsible for the project of extermination using gas vans. After Jews and others were herded into the back of a gas van, the vehicle was sealed and the exhaust pipe introduced into the back. When the engine was turned on the fumes killed everyone in the back of the vehicle. Between 97,000 and 200,000 people, most of them Jews, were murdered in this way. This method of mass murder was too slow and cumbersome for the Nazis, however, who went on to develop the gas chambers using Zyklon B as the killing agent.

-and what's up with the bold formatting ?

Several Mengele / Rauff connections in the next link,
including a photo of Rauff, although the "ballistic" episode eludes me at the moment. Sobel would be better versed.
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:AZJzWEO3o9MJ:english.ohmynews.com/a...
Which Nazis Fled To South America? - OhmyNews

In the film fantasy, all Mengele / Peck seems to do
is constantly go "ballistic". What stereotypical tripe.

No, no Quaz. Dr. Mengelepeck is very suave and debonair. He only goes ballistic when der good Germans don't obey his orders. Then he tries to rip their throats out while thrashing in the coldcuts and salad bar. I was experimenting with those pesky HTML tags and it all came out bolder than I intended. The Dago Red continues to fester like that urbanSnopes legend about the gas trucks. Maybe Saddam bought them and turned them into mobile bioterrorweapon labs.

Simon Wiesenthal holds photos, which he said
were of Nazi criminal Walter Rauff, in May 1973.

( That must be a "gas van" on the right -
- we're talking in the "millions", I'll bet. )

Here we have most of the distinguished actors from above, converging in cameo appearances for a theatrical production
based on an intriguing treasure hunt in Brazil.

The characters are all connected somehow, however thinly; and there does appear to be a quite tangible plot afoot, leading to mislaid treasure in a Nazi horror chamber.

One can almost begin to understand how the Good Rabbi, after salivating over this horde for ten years, would now be reduced to indulge his lucre by stealing designer label ties.

A Nazi's Trail Leads to Gold -- Looted From Jews? --

By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO

SAO PAULO, Brazil --Albert Blume died 14 years ago, an outcast and a mystery to his relatives, buried in a poor man's grave. As odd as his life was his legacy -- a $4 million fortune in luxury watches, rings, gold bars and gold teeth for which an aging aunt has been battling in court since his death.

The case might have ended unnoticed this year, with a court-appointed executor finally handing over the treasure to Blume's aunt, Margarida Blume. Instead, it has caught the attention of Brazil's first commission to investigate Nazi war criminals who fled here with looted Jewish property, as well as those who helped them flee.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center ,
Los Angeles, said the Blume case "appears to be the first concrete discovery of a perpetrator's account, which is where we believe the lion's share of the Jewish wealth was hidden."

Suddenly the bizarre details and contradictions in Blume's life are kindling interest among Brazilians in a chapter of their past that once seemed remote, irrelevant or taboo -- a South American counterpart to the scandal over Swiss banks that swallowed Jewish assets.

Theories about Blume's treasure abound, but for now they are only theories.

Some say that Blume, who lived out his life as a pawnbroker, fled to Brazil to escape Nazi persecution of homosexuals and that the gold was merely collateral for loans.

But Rabbi Henry Sobel, the chief rabbi of Brazil, who heads the Brazilian commission, and others contend that Blume never owned the fortune. More likely, they say, this German-born member of the Nazi Party was sent to Brazil in 1938 as a spy and was later used as a conduit for stolen gold that now lies in a bank vault in his name. They believe that Blume was holding it for a similarly named war criminal in Argentina, whose Nuremberg death sentence was commuted in 1951.

By raising these questions, the investigating commission is challenging Brazilians to color in the pages of an era that has only been outlined until now -- the history of Operation Odessa, a German plan devised in the final days of World War II to smuggle senior Nazis to South America.

The commission is reporting on stolen masterpieces, like a $1 million Madonna by Raphael that came here, and on dormant accounts opened by Nazis who fled here that are worth $15 million. One result, after decades of public indifference, is a belated national assessment of how Odessa worked and why South Americans allowed it to work so well.

If the "final solution" was the industrialized murder of European Jewry, the looting of the dead was no less systematic.

From August 1942 to late 1944, the Nazi SS organized scores of shipments -- of currency, jewelry and gold teeth -- from death camps to the Reichsbank in Berlin, the journalist Ladislas Farago wrote in his 1974 book, "Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich" (Simon & Schuster). At one point, he wrote, some 30 clerks were needed to sort and repackage the valuables.

With defeat imminent, senior German officials began hiding looted property in foreign accounts as part of a vast operation that the Allies code-named Safe Haven. Some of that money helped finance Odessa, an underground railroad for Nazi officials who were fleeing Germany and expected arrest.

Their escape routes crossed Spain, Portugal and Italy, with Argentina the most frequent destination. Hier says they received help from within the International Red Cross, which gave travel documents to fleeing Nazis, and from within the Vatican, where Bishop Alois Hudal gave shelter and false travel papers and passports.

In Argentina, President Juan Domingo Peron was openly sympathetic and only too ready to accept Nazi gold. Kim Gordon Bates, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, said the Red Cross did not knowingly help Nazis escape justice. "We assist people in need," Bates said. "We don't establish the bona fides of people who come to us for help."

In the past, the Vatican has maintained that Hudal and his boss, Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini -- later Pope Paul VI -- acted out of Christian charity.

Asked whether the pope at the time, Pius XII, had known of Hudal's role, the Rev. Ciro Benedettini, deputy spokesman for the Vatican, said in a telephone interview, "Generally the Vatican leaves this problem to the historians, because much time has passed and it's difficult to say what happened."

Arriving in South America, the fugitives relied on Nazi networks built up throughout the continent before and during the war, said Stanley Hilton, author of "Hitler's Secret War in South America" (Ballantine, 1977).

Among the fugitives was Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief nicknamed the Butcher of Lyons, who lived openly in Bolivia for years until he was finally extradited in 1983 for trial in France.

In Brazil, Dr. Josef Mengele -- the "Angel of Death" who selected victims for the gas chambers at Auschwitz and conducted medical experiments on humans -- picked up his scalpel again, performing illegal abortions without anesthesia in the state of Parana. Though he used an alias, the Brazilian secret police knew of his past for 11 years before his death in 1979, the Brazilian press reported in the 1980s.

In Chile, successive governments refused to extradite Walter Rauff, who was responsible for the mobile gas vans that killed 97,000 Jews in Eastern Europe. In Brazil, courts turned down a West German request for Gustav Franz Wagner, second-in-command at the Sobibor death camp, in 1979.

Only now are Brazilians bringing to light official complicity in helping the Nazis, said Maria Tucci Carneiro, author of "Anti-Semitism in the Vargas Era (1930-1945)."

Despite the interest overseas, which peaked with Adolf Eichmann's kidnapping from Argentina in 1960 for trial in Jerusalem, textbooks here never addressed government policies that allowed known Nazis to enter Brazil while barring Jewish refugees, she said. "It was taboo."

But with recent worldwide revelations of assets stolen from Jews, which led to the creation of the Brazilian commission, that is changing.

"In 1989 and 1992," said Otavio Costa, managing editor of Manchete, the magazine that revived the questions that first surfaced in 1989 surrounding Blume's estate, "there was nothing similar happening in the rest of the world that this was a part of. Right now, it's the opposite."

Marcelo Ponte, managing editor of Jornal do Brasil, a Rio daily, said the interest was more on the level of soap opera. "The Blume story has an element of mystery that fascinates people, that awakens their curiosity," he said. He pointed out that this is a country where crimes typically go unpunished thanks to connections or bribes and there remains a tendency to view war criminals as just a variation on that theme.

At the same time, the Brazilian commission, with the help of the World Jewish Congress, has identified 14 dormant Nazi accounts worth $15 million, and it has taken testimony from Brazil's Holocaust survivors about their losses.

But its most intriguing inquiries involve Blume and the panel's efforts to determine whether the fortune he left behind came from victims of the Holocaust.

A lawyer for the Blume family, Fernando Simas, said there was no way to prove where the contents of the vault came from, though he acknowledged that they included gold teeth and fillings.

"I don't know how to explain them, but how can someone prove they belonged to the mouth of a Jew 50 years ago?" said Simas, who is married to a cousin of Blume.

The Manchete article described Blume as a key figure in Operation Odessa, relying heavily on research by Ben Abraham, a Holocaust survivor and historian.

In an interview, Abraham said that among Blume's papers -- copies of which were passed to him by a journalist several years ago -- were identity documents and Gestapo promotions belonging to a Col. Walter Blume, who was sentenced at Nuremberg to hang for killing Jews in Eastern Europe.

Because Albert Blume's way of life appeared miserly, Abraham reasoned that the fortune must not have been his to spend. He contends that Blume came to Brazil as a spy and later helped resettle Nazis.

Sobel, working independently of Abraham, said he recently received two volumes of diaries that he was told had belonged to Blume. In one, the author wrote that he had received money from a colleague in Germany, for which he would serve as guardian.

Hier said Walter Blume commanded Unit 7-A of Einsatzgruppe B. The Einsatzgruppen followed the German Army into the Soviet Union, killing hundreds of thousands of Jews and Communist officials, often in mass slayings like the one at Babi Yar in Ukraine.

Testifying at Nuremberg, Colonel Blume said he had killed 200 civilians; the judge estimated 1,000. In Lithuania, Colonel Blume ordered the destruction of the ghetto at Vilnius, a celebrated center of Jewish learning and life.

Colonel Blume's 1948 death sentence was commuted in 1951 to 25 years and was reduced further by German judges in 1955. After release, he is believed to have gone to Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is not known whether he is still alive.

As for Albert Blume, he was a remote figure even to his relatives, said Ricardo Penteado, a court-assigned executor who is ferreting through family records to determine Blume's legal heir. They disapproved of his homosexuality and had broken ties with him.

Penteado said papers in the vault showed that Blume joined the Nazi Party in 1933 but was reprimanded two years later for not being an active enough member and expelled in 1936. In 1938 he came to Brazil to work for E. Schlemm & Co., a concern that acted as an agent for German companies trading in Brazil.

Penteado said he doubted that Albert Blume had had any ties to Nazism in Brazil. The gold dental work, he said, could have been collateral for Blume, a pawnbroker, although there are no records showing that he lent money for teeth. Nor were gold bars unusual. "Anybody can buy gold bullion," he said.

Penteado said he did not know when, or why, Albert Blume began using the nickname "Willi," a seemingly odd choice, since his family tree shows a brother by that name. Or why, after he had been expelled from the party, Blume still signed his letters "Heil Hitler."

Margarida Blume, 95, who stands to inherit the wealth, has remained largely cloistered in a modest home in Santa Catarina. She reportedly asserted that she had seen Blume only once, but said, "I do not believe my nephew was a Nazi."

Penteado said he would recommend that the court grant Margarida Blume the fortune. If the commission believes that it came from Holocaust victims, he said, they will have to battle the Blume family in court to retrieve it.

"My job is not to worry about where this money came from," Penteado said, "but where it should go."

Copyright 1997 The New York Times

Quas, I'm on the ground gasping after that one. This Holler Curse is really somethin'. Laughed so hard I've been heaving up years and years of that Hollywood pap. Sinuses are a little gummed up, but I'll pull through.

Daryl B. Smith has this little gem to share:
Holocaust Music! - Some prisoners created songs before being gassed and burned, supposedly to hide the killings. Oi Vey! What will be exposed next? Did they also get sightseeing trips to Rome or Paris? Is this one reason the Nazis records are still a secret?
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=55N0HZKN0QGTXQFIQMFSFFOAV...

ZOUNDS ! my good man, thou woundst me to the quick !
But now this, the unkindest cut of all !

Until mine own virgin ears had but heard peep of it,
had I never known such ungodly mutterings as these !

Had thou but knownst, before this onslaught of holocaust,
Had I indeed been once a musician of note ?
Alas, once a fine practitioner of note, but alas, nevermore !

Now I but play for time, as fatal clouds of hellish sulfur
invade my threshold and my chamber door...

Quit thee ! I beg thee quit !
Quit that pallid bust of Pallas, above my chamber door !

But now alack, alack ! Thus bereft of my divine gift,
am I henceforth forever stripped of it !
Oh Woe ! Oh, crashing heap of woe !

-And though I die a thousand deaths,
this be the cruelest death of all !

... to an old Palestinian fraudster who whines about getting flashbacks of the Nakba days (when jailed/tortured by the Irgun) when put in prison for a couple days.

Funny how Judeo-victimhood is milked to the point of comedy.

Ben Zion Sobel is briefly mentioned on this page from a blog for Jewish survivors of sexual violence. The main feature is Rabbi Heshy or Heshi Nussbaum, a Canadian pedophile. Although Nussbaum's activities were exposed in the 1980s, one source says he continues to tutor students.

the three strikes law comes to mind as underprivileged Americans mostly Latino and African Americans languish in jail for the rest of their lives for shoplifting.

When LAW becomes the purveyor of injustice that is when you know the 'civilization' that spawned it is coming to an end.

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"Money" has no value - people do.

Oops ! Almost missed it. If you ever wondered
what an April Fool might look like and act like,
don't miss this article, or the video at the end.
Unfortunately, I heard this "April Fool" was so
full of remorse that he just committed suicide.

OOPS ! GOTCHA ! APRIL FOOLS !
http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8107/54/
Illustrious Rabbi from Brazil Apologizes for Stealing Ties

What does this clown do for 12 grand a month ?

For 12 grand a month, we should all be so foolish, no ?

A non-Jew is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a non-Jew or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a non-Jew."
-Tosefta, Qbda Zara, 5

"All property of all other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples. An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality towards people of other tribes. He may act contrary to morality, if profitable to himself or to Jews in general' "
-Schulchan Qruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348

"A Jew may rob a non-Jew - that is, he may cheat him in a bill, if unlikely to be perceived by him."
- -Schulchan Arach, Choszen Hamiszpat 348