At the end of July when 10 people, among them several rabbis, were arrested in New Jersey, USA, it was assumed that this was little more than a case of tax fraud by another charity. Charities often run foul of the law by failing, quite innocently, of fulfilling their legal obligations. But the New Jersey arrests pointed to something much bigger. There were not only politicians involved in corruption scandals — again not unusual for the US — but rabbis selling organs imported from Israel. One of them, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum from Brooklyn, described himself to an FBI agent whom he believed to be a client, as a “matchmaker”. The rabbi was not talking about romance; it was more serious: buying and selling kidneys from Israel. He admitted that he purchased kidneys from ‘poor people’ in Israel for $10,000 and sold them for $160,000 each in the US. And he had been in this business for decades.