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RELATED LINKSInternal LinksGrants to: Profiles: MORE LINKSJames V. Grimaldi and Susan Schmidt Senate Report: Five Nonprofit Groups Sold Clout to AbramoffJames V. Grimaldi and Susan Schmidt Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, "perpetrated a fraud" on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a report issued today.
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PERSON PROFILEDaniel Lapin
Frederick Clarkson Why Books Are Like Bin Laden and HitlerDemonizing 'secularism'Rabbi Daniel Lapin, long a figure on the religious right, has a warning for his conservative Christian friends: books now on the shelves in the nation's book stores threaten them like Osama Bin Laden and Adolph Hitler. At least a little. Or maybe a lot. Bill Berkowitz Abramoff accomplice right wing Rabbi Daniel Lapin is still in businessEthically-challenged head of Toward Tradition, one of the Christian Right's most reliable Jewish allies, decides to keep the doors of his organization openA funny thing happened to Rabbi Daniel Lapin on his journey to constantly claiming the moral high ground: Toward Tradition, his conservative Jewish organization, got so deeply involved with the shenanigans of the now-jailed Republican Party mega-lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- Lapin's longtime friend and business associate -- that rumors of the organization's demise began to percolate in the media. But despite the rumor that Toward Tradition would shut its doors -- a rumor generated largely by the Rabbi's testimony before a congressional committee -- Lapin has now pledged to keep the organization's doors open.
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MORE LINKSBill Berkowitz Daniel Lapin: The Right's favorite RabbiWill Lapin's involvement in the Abramoff scandal hurt, or solidify, his position with Christian evangelicals?
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