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11-05-08 Tikkun’s Rabbi Lerner opines regarding response, or lack thereof, by ADL’s National
Director Abraham Foxman to respond re: racketeering in the courts by leading Los
Angeles Jewish-Legal community figures.
Rabbi Michael Lerner wrote:
Sender: Michael Lerner <rabbilerner.tikkun@gmail.com>
From: Michael Lerner <rabbilerner@tikkun.org>
To: joseph zernik <jz12345@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Request for opinion on a Jewish Ethics question: Response, or lack thereof, by ADL
Director Abraham Foxman on alleged corruption and racketeering in the courts by key figures of the
Los Angeles Jewish-Legal Community
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 21:20:46 -0700
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I know nothing about the circumstances about which you are talking, and don't want to publicly
comment on Mr. Foxman because the only honest things I could say might easily bring me a law suit
for slander.
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Editor, Tikkun Magazine www.tikkun.org
Chair, The Network of Spiritual Progressives (www.spiritualprogressives.org)
Rabbi, Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in S.F. and Berkeley (www.beyttikkun.org)
rabbilerner@tikkun.org
Office: 510 644 1200

Joseph Zernik wrote:

To: "Rabbi Michael Lerner" <rabbilerner @ tikkun.org>
From: joseph zernik <jz12345@earthlink.net>
Subject: Request for opinion on a Jewish Ethics question: Response, or lack thereof, by ADL Director
Abraham Foxman on alleged corruption and racketeering in the courts by key figures of the Los
Angeles Jewish-Legal Community

Rabbi Michael Lerner

Tikkun Magazine

Dear Rabbi Lerner:

Thank you for your response on related matters in the past. I again write to request your personal
opinion on a question of Jewish ethics.

Recently, I have filed a request with Mr Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti Defamation
League (ADL), for ADL's opinion regarding alleged public corruption and racketeering in the courts by
leading figures of the Los Angeles Jewish-Legal community (see May 5, 2011 press release, below).

Under such circumstances, would it be ethically reasonable for Mr Foxman not to respond at all, given
the stated mission of ADL "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure
justice and fair treatment to all?

Truly,
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Joseph Zernik, PhD

Human Rights Alert (NGO)
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LINKS:
[i] 11-05-05 ADLs Abraham Foxman is asked to opine on allegations of Public Corruption,
Racketeering in the Los Angeles Jewish Community
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54664741/
[ii] 11-05-05 Addendum to request for opinion by ADLs Abraham Foxman in re:
Corruption/Racketeering in the Los Angeles Jewish/Legal community-s
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54719683/
[iii] 10-04-19 Human Rights Alert (NG0) submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for
the 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States as incorporated into the UPR staff report,
with reference to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession".
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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May 5, 2011 Press Release

Anti Defamation Leagues Abraham Foxman is Asked to Opine on Allegations

of Public Corruption, Racketeering in the Los Angeles Jewish-Legal
Community

The allegations, pertaining to Executives of Bet Tzedek, the House of Justice, could lead
people to conclude that the Los Angeles Jewish community holds in high esteem, or even as
its leaders, individuals, who represent the worst in any civil society - individuals who betray
their public office through criminality.

Terry Friedman David Pasternak Sandor Samuels

Los Angeles, May 5 in a letter addressed to Abraham Foxman, Director of the Anti
Defamation League (ADL), Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert (NGO), asked that
ADL provide an opinion regarding his allegations of public corruption and racketeering in the
courts by current and former executives of BET TZEDEK - the Los Angeles "HOUSE OF
JUSTICE". [i,ii]

The allegations were supported by opinions of fraud experts of the highest reputation, and
were part of conduct that was opined in the 2010 Human Rights Council of the United Nations
as corruption of the courts and the legal profession in California. [iii]
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Over the past several years, Dr Zernik has often written, published online, and distributed by
email to a large recipient list materials, which may be deemed by some as defamatory of key
Jewish organizations in Los Angeles, California:
• BET TZEDEK, the "HOUSE OF JUSTICE", and
• THE GREATER LOS ANGELES JEWISH FEDERATION, with whom it is
affiliated.
His writing alleged public corruption and racketeering in the courts by current and former
Executives of BET TZEDEK:
• SANDOR SAMUELS, current and former President;
• DAVID PASTERNAK, former President (possibly current member of the Board of
Directors)
• TERRY FRIEDMAN, former Executive Director.
SANDOR SAMUELS also lists himself as a Board Member in a number of other prominent
Los Angeles Jewish organizations:
• AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
• ZIEGLER SCHOOL OF RABBINIC STUDIES
• SHALHEVET SCHOOL
• ADAT ARI EL SYNAGOGUE, VALLEY VILLAGE
Dr Zernik has expressed his concern that his writing, and the positions held by such
individuals, could lead people to conclude that the Los Angeles Jewish community holds in
high esteem, or even as its leaders, individuals, who represent the worst in any civil society -
individuals who betray their public office through criminality. Moreover, Dr Zernik has
pointed out the large number of readers of his writings.

In order to remove any doubts on such important matter, and knowing that ADL has a good-
size legal department and considerable resources, Dr Zernik has requested a formal opinion by
ADL on these allegations. With the letter, large volume of evidence has been provided to
ADL.

ADL's mission is "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair
treatment to all.
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Human Rights Alert is dedicated to discovering, archiving, and disseminating evidence of Human Rights violations by the justice
systems of the State of California and the United States in Los Angeles County, California, and beyond. Human Rights Alert
focuses on the unique role of computerized case management systems in the precipitous deterioration of the integrity of the justice
system in the United States.
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WHAT DID THE EXPERT SAY ABOUT THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS?
* "...a system in which only the little people have to obey the law, while the rich, and bankers especially, can cheat and defraud
without consequences."
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50753639/
Prof Paul Krugman, MIT (2011)
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA?
* "...judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."
Prof David Burcham, Dean, Loyola Law School, LA (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29043589/
* "This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states... and judges must share responsibility when
innocent people are convicted."
Prof Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Irvine Law School (2001)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27433920/
* "Innocent people remain in prison"
* "...the LA Superior Court and the DA office, the two other parts of the justice system that the Blue Panel Report recommends
must be investigated relative to the integrity of the system, have not produced any response that we know of..."
LAPD Blue Ribbon Review Panel Report (2006)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24902306 /
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN CALIFORNIA?
* "...corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."
United Nations Human Rights Council Staff Report (2010)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE STATE COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES?
* "On July 26, 2010, Laurence Tribe, Senior Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, Access to Justice Initiative,
delivered an important speech to the Conference of Chief Justices, challenging them to halt the disintegration of our state justice
systems before they become indistinguishable from courts of third world nations."
Prof Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School (2010), per National Defender Leadership Institute (2010)
http://www.nlada.net/library/article/national_dojspeechto%20chiefjustice07-26-2010_gideonalert
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WHAT DID THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?
* "More than 100 law professors have signed on to a letter released today that proposes congressional hearings and legislation
aimed at fashioning "mandatory and enforceable" ethics rules for Supreme Court justices for the first time. The effort, coordinated
by the liberal Alliance for Justice, was triggered by "recent media reports," the letter said, apparently referring to stories of meetings
and other potential conflicts of interest involving Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas among others."
More than 100 law professors, as reported by the Blog of the Legal Times (February 2011)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49586436/
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WHAT DID CHIEF JUDGE OF THE US COURT OF APPEALS, 5TH CIRCUIT, SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* "The American legal system has been corrupted almost beyond recognition..."
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Edith Jones, speaking before the Federalist Society of Harvard Law School
(February 2003)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50137887/
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WHAT DID THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SAY ABOUT THE US JUSTICE SYSTEM?
* In a speech in Georgetown University, Senator Leahy, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for a "Truth and
Reconciliation Commission" on the US Department of Justice.
Transcript of Senator Leahy speech (2009)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38472251/
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