Republican lobbyist and Orthodox Jew Jack Abramoff's e-mails reveal much about his apparently criminal motivation.
Abramoff defrauded* the Choctaw Indians in order to have more cash to pay for his Orthodox school and for other Jewish charitable causes.
(You'll note that Rabbi Daniel Lapin appears to be lying in the second linked article. Why? Read the fully-quoted e-mails in the first article and compare them to Rabbi Lapin's statement in the second.
Rabbi Lapin, the founder of Toward Tradition, has a history of shady business dealings – including investiments in an LA slumlord. He is sometimes accused of running a cult, and is the rabbi and mentor of talk radio host Michael Medved and author David Klinghoffer. Abramoff was for a time on the board of Rabbi Lapin's Toward Tradition. Medved often defends Tom DeLay's role in this scandal and does so without mentioning his own very personal links to Rabbi Lapin, Toward Tradition and Abramoff.
Fpr more on Rabbi Lapin, see this article in tomorrow's Washington Post, The Republicans' Rabbi-in-Arms.)
*Are you listening, Oglala Sioux? This is not the "Peace and Justice" Orthodox Judaism you are familiar with.