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Milton Balkany
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “orthodox rabbi”. Today it says “american orthodox jewish”.
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Milton Yehoshua Balkany (born 1946) is an American Orthodox Jewish rabbi , past director of the Jewish girls′ school Bais Yaakov of Midwood , conservative political activist and fundraiser from Brooklyn, New York , dubbed “the Brooklyn Bundler.” In November 2010, Balkany was found guilty of extortion , blackmail , wire fraud and making false statements in a Federal Court in Manhattan. On February 18, 2011, he was sentenced to four years in prison.1
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orthodox rabbi
Now
american orthodox jewish
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