Hornet Nests

A letter to Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, Mercer Island, Seattle, Washington, drew his attention to some issues that he needed to address. They concern Council House, Seattle, a government financially-assisted senior citizen residence and members of his congregation.

The letter gave him an opportunity to respond to exposé on how members of his congregation abuse senior citizens, misappropriate government funds, and practice racism and religious bigotry. His congregation includes several superior court judges, lawyers, and others who have run amok against all Judaic principles.

Rosenbaum did not respond although he acknowledged receipt. He continues to harbor alleged criminals and bigots at the highest level of his administration.

Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative synagogue, Mercer Island, Washington, harbors an evil hornet’s nest of Washington superior court judges, Council House directors, members of their families, and their attorneys. among its top echelons. They hold positions at the highest level in the synagogue administration and have a distinct conflict of interest - they allegedly conspire as a cabal. The synagogue harbors people allegedly guilty of corruption and abuse.

In keeping with journalism ethics, Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum had an opportunity (as did Rabbi Earl S. Starr, formerly senior rabbi, Temple De Hirsch Sinai) to respond to allegations about harboring a nest of unprincipled, morally-barren hornets in his synagogue. Neither Rosenbaum nor Starr replied. It seems that rabbinic indifference to treatment that adversely affects elderly people at Council House matches the indifference of supine members of their congregations. Judge Anthony P. Wartnik and Council House attorney Richard Du Bey serve in the top echelons of Herzl-Ner Tamid administration with other Council House directors and their family members.

Rosenbaum has known about the Council House situation for some time. He must accept that his silence has tacitly endorsed unlawful and immoral actions among members of his congregation. He has condoned their actions by allowing them to hide behind their religion using a court-ordered shield of anonymity allegedly obtained through judicial misconduct.

Rosenbaum received prepublication information for fact-checking and his office signed a certified mail receipt for it. He also received previously published material yet he chose not to respond within a reasonable time to comments about the synagogue and its congregation. Herzl-Ner Tamid conservative congregation has failed to address issues and now leaves itself wide open to media exposure. [Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Synagogue]

Similarly, Temple de Hirsch Sinai (TDHS), Seattle, with its reform congregation, harbors another hornet’s nest. National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) members have had a long-term involvement with the Council House debacle. One would assume that TDHS had enough adverse publicity with the alleged misappropriation of synagogue funds by former Rabbi Earl Starr. Jon Rosen, President, Board of Trustees, reportedly referred to Starr as a beloved senior rabbi of Seattle's largest Jewish congregation. It seems Starr beloved money more than his congregation.

While still under an informal congressional investigation, Stephen (aka Stefan) A. Mitchell, Council House administrator, told HUD that TDHS had complained to him about harassing email messages, letters, and faxes without any supporting evidence. [01] Stephen M., in documents obtained from US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), represented that Rabbi Starr had made harassment accusations. [02] Actually, Starr received routine press releases containing constitutionally protected speech announcing media articles that named TDHS. When M. heard about the release he tried to categorize it as harassment as he had previously claimed in perjured testimony.

In a democratic society, Starr must not make assertions without proof and without allowing the person he accuses an opportunity to refute the allegations. [03] He failed to respond to a request for that proof or to provide copies of his communications with Stephen M.. Starr apparently had a clandestine association with Stephen M. similar to the relationship that David Brian Goldberg, Director, Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Seattle, had with him.

Goldberg failed properly to respond to questions about Council House allegations made to ADL. His evasive comments led to a belief that ADL runs kangaroo courts to support harassment of the goyim. Obviously, kangaroo courts have no legal standing in a democracy although it appears that members of both congregations have resorted to them. [Strange Bedfellows]

On the basis of Starr’s alleged statements and those by members of Rosenbaum’s congregation, Stephen M. launched an unlawful eviction campaign solely based upon denial of freedom of expression and right of assembly. Starr received a similar warning to that given to Rosenbaum about publication of their association with Council House. Neither of them responded. [Temple De Hirsch Sinai]

Starr reportedly diverted synagogue funds for personal use over a 10-year period according to Rosen and senior Rabbi Daniel Weiner. They would not reveal the amount that Starr allegedly embezzled but called it substantial. Sources have put the amount at $400,000.00.

Starr apparently misappropriated money given to the synagogue by a local foundation. Rosen said that Starr could not remember how he used all the money but admitted that it related to personal expenditure. Residents at Council House would certainly remember where they spent $400,000.00. [04]

Similarly, members of Herzl-Ner Tamid congregation connected with Council House break laws by not revealing the source of their non-profit donations. They desperately try to keep their identities and their finances secret and resorted to unlawfully jailing a reporter who exposed them. [Agency Accountability]

As the Nazis behaved so it reflected upon Germans for many years. As Council House directors, Rosenbaum, and Starr, have behaved so it will reflect upon them adversely for years to come. Today’s newspapers become tomorrow’s trash. Only books and the world wide web survive.

The irresponsibility of both Rabbis in not addressing issues that affect their congregations simulates the behavior of rabbis in Germany in the 1930's. Many remained indifferent. They turned their backs on problems and those problems returned to haunt them. Seattle rabbis apparently have no understanding how this author and several other Council House residents suffered in the ensuing war. They have no idea how it feels to relive those circumstances at the hands of members of their congregations.

Londoners paid a ransom to the Nazis for the Kindertransport children then housed, clothed, fed, and educated them when America turned them away by the thousand to meet their fate. This author remembers them because Jewish immigrants fleeing the Nazis lived in his house and went to school with him.

Now, no respect remains for their suffering. The Jewish community has turned those experiences into a holocaust industry that involves blackmailing European banks. A Council House camp survivor has still not received a dime in reparations. In trying to gain satisfaction an attorney swindled him out of a $5,000.00 retainer. Lynn W., former co-president of Council House also her father had a long-term family connection with this Buchenwald victim (saved under auspices of the British government). Yet they have shown no interest in his financial plight or obtaining reparations for him. In fact, Stephen M., and his assistant Audrey D., have repeatedly abused this very frail old man. Council House, has no qualified service coordinator therefore it has no mechanism to deal with reparations as required by federal law. [Service Coordinators, Mental Health Counselors, and Social Workers]

Council House directors, a group of wealthy Jews support their administrator and his staff in abusing and incarcerating senior citizens (many of them Jews). They represent themselves as pillars of temples like Herzl-Ner Tamid and Temple De Hirsch Sinai. However, history repeats itself in a role reversal. [Frog's Dream]

The mealy-mouthed hypocrites of a new century with morality based upon personal wealth they self-aggrandize at the expense of their fellows. They resort to illegal and immoral activity using neo-fascist techniques to support their greed and silence their critics. They fail to realize that the spirit of truth and freedom symbolize pillars of society not phony outward shows of benevolence.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it . . . it’s just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. [05]

The residents of Council House with their meager means lose their homes at the whim of neo-fascist administrators and the directors turn their heads with indifference. They have no feeling for the racist derogation of residents similar to that which their forebears suffered for centuries. Perhaps they delight in seeing someone else have a turn at the suffering. Do the directors realize that black people and European Jews at Council House have suffered for years at the hands of administrators? Do they intentionally perpetuate that abuse? If they answer yes to either of those questions then they classify as minorities turned monsters.

Like Rabbi Starr and his embezzlement, the Council House directors remember nothing when it comes to civil rights. During the European holocaust hornets had a use. They fed on insects that destroyed valuable trees used in the manufacture of rope for the war effort. Present day hornets apparently have no redeeming graces. They feed upon others for their own benefit. They rob government coffers without compunction. [Prologue]

The misuse of government funds and the abuse of elderly people at Council House will certainly affect the standing of both religious institutions in their respective communities. Their behavior makes a strong statement against faith-based government funding.

Seattle media endorsed Judge James A. Doerty, Washington Superior Court, for election. They continue to idolize this incompetent fool and the corrupt and incompetent lawyers who pander to him. Meanwhile, Lynn W., under the auspices of her husband, Judge Anthony P. Wartnik, commits perjury about the mental state of Council House residents then arranges or condones solitary confinement and arrest without due process. Her manager and his Kapos boast about those achievements.

This author, jailed by Council House directors for exposing their corruption, has survived a life that spans the European holocaust, combat duty in the Sinai desert (protecting Israelis so that they could turn it into a tourist resort), and now experiences amoral American Jews and unethical judges preying upon elderly European Jews and black people.

If one has never experienced jail then one cannot empathize with a young black man charged with murder who occupied the next cell to this author. A judge apparently recused himself in that case because he rejected the idea of the death penalty. Allegedly, Anthony P. Wartnik has accepted the case. One wonders whether he will ever receive justice from this bigoted monster. [Metamorphosis]

Perhaps, Wartnik and Doerty should spend 111 days in jail (25 of them in solitary confinement) so that they can experience first hand the degradation and humiliation to which they sentence minorities (some of them innocent but with no voice). I doubt that they would survive the ordeal because their arrogance would insure that they would be “taken care of” by other inmates very quickly.

When the electorate wakes up to their misconduct it will cease to reelect them. They will lose their immunity to prosecution for the egregious harm that they cause to others by judicial misconduct. One advantage of elected judges is that the public can get rid of them when they find out that they have used their position to assuage their obsessive need for absolute power and greed.

This reporter expects nothing from the synagogues except that their congregations understand the negative publicity and its societal implications that will impact them as a result of their fellows. Several prominent members of the Seattle Jewish community have already registered their dismay. Many more will wonder what has become of the much vaunted morality of Judaic teachings. The hornets have now mounted a massive cover-up of their original lies, perjury, and prejudice.

Like Starr, will Rosenbaum lose his memory when it comes to an accounting. Will he support Richard Du Bey when he answers complaints before the bar association for misconduct? Will Rosenbaum support Wartnik when he has to answer for judicial misconduct? Will Rosenbaum keep silent about the libelous smear campaign launched by Council House directors under constructive immunity granted by Judge Doerty? Will Rosenbaum stand behind them when they eventually face indictment? Or, will he disappear out-of-state like Starr?

I witnessed the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London (09 Nov 02). Anyone who experienced the European holocaust remembers the phrase: “At the rising up and the going down of the sun I will remember them”. They remember that all people who fought during two wars - men, women and children - did so to protect the values of democracy. They had no question in their minds that their society would not survive without democracy. They knew that no freedom of choice, movement, education, or religion could exist without it. [Lest we Forget]

Solitary confinement in King County jail represents the nearest thing to Auschwitz that Doerty and Wartnik could devise. The accused murderers and rapists with whom they imprisoned me, and with whom I clandestinely communicated, showed compassion, especially for my medical condition, than any hornet’s nest member gives to Council House residents. Accused murderers and rapists gave me their food so that I could eat properly and gave me bootleg paper and pencils so that I could continue to write. Conversely, the Council House administrator overrides medical certificates and forces residents to eat and pay for food that affects their health adversely. [Agency Accountability]

Not having spent time in jail previously, “going native” became a reversible operation. I suffered several permanent effects. I learned the lesson that things were different elsewhere, that disparate cultures view the world in totally different ways. Inmates who allegedly committed criminal offenses that carry punishment by long-term imprisonment or death had public defenders appointed by the court. Doerty and Wartnik incarcerated me without committing any crime and denied me legal representation. I stood on my constitutional rights under constitutional law and they considered it a personal affront.

Wartnik allegedly acted behind the scenes to cover up egregious behavior by his wife and the kin of other members of Herzl-Ner Tamid congregation. I like to think that, for me, that experience helped to enlarge the small prison of self in which many people feel confined. [06] Spending time in close proximity with inmates suffering from Hepatitis-C, AIDS, and TB sufferers left its mark. I hope that Wartnik and his wife will try it sometime but, with a neo-fascist Jewish lobby in Washington, will these vermin ever pay for their bigotry and crimes?

Nmesis.

Herzl-Ner Tamid

Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum
Senior Rabbi, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation

Andrew Robinson
President, Executive Committee, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation

Temple De Hirsch Sinai

Rabbi Daniel Weiner
Senior Rabbi, Temple De Hirsch Sinai (replaced Rabbi Earl S. Starr)

Jon H Rosen
President of the Board, Temple De Hirsch Sinai

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