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Yeshiva property loses tax exemption
[color="Red"]Christmas tree lights yield telltale cluePosted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/21/06
BY JAMES W. PRADO ROBERTS
AND JASON METHOD
STAFF WRITERS
It was the Christmas tree lights that tipped off the Lakewood tax assessor's field investigator.
Surely a rabbi who lived in a tax-exempt house associated with a Jewish school wouldn't be celebrating Christmas.
But in December 1996, there were lights and a Christmas tree, all visible through the front window.
When the inspector visited the Deal Yeshiva's Lakeview Drive house, there were tenants living there, but no rabbi.
The tax assessor promptly revoked the tax-exempt status for the house and billed the West Long Branch-based school for back taxes for the last four months of 1996.
The Deal Yeshiva was incorporated in 1986 by Solomon Dwek's parents, Rabbi Isaac Dwek and Raizel Dwek, to "educate children in the religious sephardic tradition."
Sephardic Jews trace their roots to the Iberian Peninsula of Spain and Portugal.
Solomon Dwek had been the yeshiva's vice president from at least 1997 until he resigned following his arrest in May on federal bank fraud charges.
[color="Red"]The incident at the Lakewood house wasn't the only time yeshiva officials used the school to gain an exemption from local property taxes.
In 1996, the yeshiva applied for tax exemptions for two recently purchased houses in Ocean Township — one as a "parsonage" and the other as a "Rabbi's residence," according to tax records.
Solomon Dwek signed the letter accompanying the application for one property, writing that "this particular home is to be used by a Rabbi, the principal of the (yeshiva's) Logan Road School as a parsonage."
Ocean Township Tax Assessor Edward Mullane headed out to investigate.
On Jan. 9, 1997 — a month after Lakewood had disallowed the exemption for a rabbi's house in its town — Mullane visited one of the residences on Grant Avenue, Ocean Township, to ask for the rabbi.
A short man dressed in black answered the door and told Mullane, "No rabbi lives here," and he "quickly closed the door," Mullane noted at the time in his file.
Next door, at the other rabbi residence, a woman said, "No rabbi lives here," according to the records.
The woman said a rabbi once lived at the house, but had moved. She and her husband, who wasn't a rabbi, rented the residence.
Mullane rejected the exemption applications, noting that his investigation found both to be rental properties owned by the yeshiva. Neither denial was appealed by the yeshiva, records show. A lawyer for the yeshiva declined to comment.
Today, the yeshiva maintains two tax-exempt rabbi homes, the maximum allowed under the law, on Holly Terrace in Ocean Township. Rabbi Isaac Dwek lives in one house, assessed at $1.1 million, and the second, assessed at $905,000 in 2005, is for visiting rabbis.
[8/6/2007 10:38:41 PM] [color="Blue"]craig_cobb says Fuck an A-- I'm with Alex--she is the greatest talent on the board--and you dense assholes can't see the sun.
Posted : 21/08/2006 1:56 pm
For years I've watched as hasidic jews have committed large scale tax fraud just like this. For years I told people about it. For years nobody cared -- still don't.
Jews seem to have the ability of hypnotizing their victims so they remain immobile while they are drained of their blood.
Critical Mass
Posted : 21/08/2006 2:40 pm
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For years I've watched as hasidic jews have committed large scale tax fraud just like this. For years I told people about it. For years nobody cared -- still don't.
Jews seem to have the ability of hypnotizing their victims so they remain immobile while they are drained of their blood.
True, but jews always commit the same crime every time: they always overstep their boundaries. They almost seem to want to have the host that they suck the blood from, to wake up in anger over what is happening. It is their fatal self hating flaw.
[8/6/2007 10:38:41 PM] [color="Blue"]craig_cobb says Fuck an A-- I'm with Alex--she is the greatest talent on the board--and you dense assholes can't see the sun.
Posted : 21/08/2006 5:48 pm