http://www.sabah.com.tr/2006/04/03/gnd105.html
I've translated that. If you have any questions regarding the translation , you may ask any time because there were some phrases. There was a critism sentence with the word donkey, I ,especially, was very careful with it.
Some of Jews from high society are willing to pay money in order to have their photos on magazines
Journalist: Jews are known to be people who are not always around , don’t speak very much, don’t declare anything which may damage the relations with the government, don’t get into politics. When it comes to Jews in Turkey, it is not the same, especially, for the ones in high society. They are on the front pages of magazines, they take place primarily in society news.
Ishak Haleva: Unfortunately, it is. Most of the people who take place in those kind of magazines are from the same environment. Some of them, in fact I shouldn’t say these but, are willing to pay money , just to see their photos here and there. All of them are for gaining fame, being seen. What is the need for too much show-off?
*Is it important to gain fame for Jews?
Haleva: No. These people are an apparant group, living together. Because of them, you may think that all Jews are rich. Besides, what is wealth? The one who has money, or the one who is contented with what he has? Show-off mentality is very popular among them. I want to give advice to them but I cannot see them. If they came to the synagogue, I’d tell them but they don’t. I had a conservative friend, he got very rich. He began to get along with that group. After a while, he said “I cannot get adapted to them.” and he came back.
*Why couldn’t he get adapted?
Haleva: His life went bad, his marriage ended. We’ve been already seeing the same around. Becoming distant to religious issues brings these. They fall into a gap. Some people fill the gap with reading and culture, these people fill it with nonsense.
*You say so,but most of the ones seen on the magazines are well-educated.
Haleva: It is worse. Excuse me, I will not keep myself, without money, you cannot even tie them to a barn, it’d be an insult to donkeys. They had a good education, but because of competing with each other, they cannot show good sides of their characters.
*I think you are pessimistic in this subject.
Haleva: However, I am not. I’m looking at the full part of the glass. But those people are in the same soup. So they treat each other well in the same environment/group. As they get older, they will understand the meaning of the moral/spiritual principles. If their base is strong, I don’t get afraid. It is a period, it passes. I’ve seen many dark/bad days. But when there is a storm, I get happ because storm diffuses the clouds.
