Rabbi Mark S. Shapiro, longtime chief of Congregation B’nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim in Glenview, used to be an eloquent orator and social justice chief who impressed a lot of his scholars to turn out to be non secular leaders themselves. Rabbi Shapiro, a Northbrook resident, died Aug. 28 at 85 of Parkinson’s illness. “One of the things he was most proud of is he had many, many, many students — upward of 30 or 40 — who decided to become rabbis and cantors and teachers and Jewish educators,” stated Steve Shapiro of Minneapolis, the eldest of Rabbi Shapiro’s 3 sons. “That was a legacy he was maybe more proud of than anything.” Rabbi Shapiro led Congregation B’nai Jehoshua Beth
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Rabbi accused of fraud in nursing house offers
U.S. securities regulators have charged an Orthodox rabbi from Chicago with dishonest traders out of not less than $10 million since 2014, a few of it allegedly used to pay earlier traders within the method of a Ponzi scheme. In bringing the costs towards Zvi Feiner, 49, the Securities and Exchange Commission mentioned it has settled associated expenses towards one among his enterprise associates, Erez Baver. The SEC mentioned Baver, 39, and an organization he owns have agreed to pay $2.25 million in disgorgement and prejudgment curiosity, plus a civil penalty to be decided, with out admitting or denying the allegations. The expenses contain Feiner’s creation of 20 restricted legal responsibility firms to buy nursing properties