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Hey, guess what? Bernie Madoff didn’t just target Jews! According to a story in today’s Boston Globe, Madoff swindled Muslims, too—specifically, Sufis, adherents of a mystical form of Islam. The paper reports that Sufi groups, including the North American chapter of Sufi Order International, entrusted millions of dollars to Madoff. But how did these people ...

Things aren’t easy for Ruth Madoff, according to a profile in this week’s New York magazine. Her friends seem to agree that she didn’t know about her husband’s scam, her kids don’t speak to her, she gets lousy PR advice, she’s shunned by New York society, and the man to whom she’s been devoted since ...

• “When you spend hundreds of millions of dollars with someone, you think you know him.” Comedian Andy Borowitz imagines a more satisfying apology from Ruth Madoff. [HuffPo]
• French president Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly advised Israeli P.M. Netanyahu to ditch his ultra-right-wing foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman in favor of centrist Tzipi Livni. Although this bold suggestion ...

• There is, apparently, an “entire marketplace” of Bernie Madoff tchotchkes. For those who lost their fortunes, they’re no doubt as comforting as “Bushisms” calendars were to Democrats a few years back. [NYMag]
• But is the con man’s wife suffering unduly? The poor woman can’t even get highlights. [NYT]
• And it still doesn’t seem quite ...