Jews Reeling in Wake of Penn State Scandal

[Wimpy]

Didn't someone once mention that jews control Academia?   :lol:  



November 16, 2011

Jews reeling in wake of Penn State scandal
by Bryan Schwartzman, The Jewish Exponent



 Former Penn State University football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, center, is led away by police after being arrested in a sex crimes investigation, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Nov. 5. Photo by REUTERS/Pennsylvania State Attorney General's Office/Handout
Rabbi David Ostrich, who leads the lone congregation in State College, Pa., couldn't bring himself to sermonize last Shabbat on the scandal that's on everyone's mind.

For one thing, it's all too raw and too much remains unknown, said the religious leader of Congregation Brit Shalom, a Reform synagogue.

Then there's the fact that one of his congregants happens to be Graham Spanier, whose 16-year tenure at the helm of Penn State University came to an unceremonious end last week when the university trustees fired him.

"The revelation of these terrible secrets has shattered the sensibilities of this community, said Ostrich, who serves on the board of Penn State Hillel, which also counted Spanier as an ardent supporter. Many people are walking around in shock, like someone kicked them in their stomachs.

Indeed, Penn State's football program, the whole university really, has experienced a shocking fall. As seemingly everyone now knows, the allegations that an assistant football coach sexually abused young boys led to the firing of not only Spanier but also the legendary Nittany Lions coach, Joe Paterno.

The scandal has reverberated throughout the Penn State world, touching the emotions of Jewish alumni around the country, state and in the Philadelphia community.

One example is Constance Smukler, a Philadelphia philanthropist and major donor to Jewish groups, whose father was a Penn state alum and supporter. The campus' state-of-the-art facility the Louis and Mildred Lasch Football Building, where at least one of the incidents of abuse allegedly took place is named for her parents.

She was among those in attendance earlier this year when the local chapter of the American Jewish Committee honored Paterno and his wife, Sue, with its National Leadership award.

Rabbi Mark Robbins, AJC's regional director, said that the Paternos were honored for their general philanthropic work and support of interfaith programming on campus.

"It's all very sad because they had been great supporters of the underprivileged and things that had been important to the Jewish community, he said.

On campus, Spanier's departure is being talked about as a potential loss for Hillel, which serves a campus with some 5,000 Jewish students.

The South African native, whose parents fled Nazi Germany, ran the state's largest academic institution, with 96,000 students, 24 branch campuses and a $4.3 billion budget.............


..................."Everyone respected Graham Spanier. He did really good things for the university, said Ashley Gold, a 2011 graduate who was active in Hillel, spent her junior year abroad in Israel and is now a reporter for the Reading Eagle.

"Everyone in Hillel knew that Graham Spanier was Jewish. I don't think the whole college knew.........

http://www.jewishjournal.com/nation/article/jews_reeling_in_wake_of_penn_state_scandal_video_20111116/

[abduLMaria]

Didn't someone once mention that jews control Academia?   :lol:  

just because they teach the Holohoax & mostly ignore the reasons for the expulsion of Jews from 100+ countries ... along with indoctrinating students with the concept that anti-Semitism is a TERRIBLE TERRIBLE sin ... why whatever are you talking about ?!