The Brooklyn Paper: WikiRabbi! Leaked diplomatic cables make a star out of Niederman

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The Brooklyn Paper: WikiRabbi! Leaked diplomatic cables make a star out of Niederman: "Brooklyn has its own “victim” of the WikiLeaks dump — Rabbi David Niederman!
Buried in the 251,287 just-revealed diplomatic cables and no-longer-secret documents was a message from the United States embassy in Madrid detailing an effort by Niederman and his Williamsburg-based United Jewish Organizations to protect 15th-century Jewish gravesites discovered during construction projects in the Iberian peninsula, one of the cradles of modern Jewish civilization.
Across the world, governments have been reacting with outrage about the WikiLeaks dump — but in Brooklyn, Niederman laughed about the suddenly unsecret three-year-old cable from the embassy to Sen. Joe Lieberman (D–Connecticut).
“This is terrible!” he joked. “There are no secrets anymore.”
Rep. Ed Towns (D–Fort Greene) was also caught in the WikiLeaks net.
“Based on the interest of concerned Americans … among them Rep. Ed Towns and Rabbi David Niederman, [we] have expressed our concern to the Spanish government that these culturally and religiously sensitive sites need to be protected and handled in a manner in keeping with the wishes of the Jewish community in Spain,” read the diplomatic cable from then–Ambassador Eduardo Aguirre."

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