An Ohio rabbi who admitted to skimming hundreds of thousands of dollars from the sale of instant bingo cards received three years of probation Tuesday and was ordered to do 400 hours of community service. Rabbi Jacob Lustig, 72, who served for more than two decades as rabbi of Kneseth Israel Congregation, was also ordered to turn over more than $920,000.
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