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Luchins responded that ''"Jewish tradition says that every Jewish soul was at Sinai, and I assume Rabbi Balkany's was there also. We may not have met because he might have been in the back, collecting money. He apparently feels a need to find a scapegoat for his own loss of influence in the new administration."''<ref name="reps"/>
In March of 1995 a Rabbinic Court met at Yeshiva University at Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik's suggestion to hear Rabbi Balkany's charges against David Luchins.The court, consisting of three revered Yeshiva University Roshei Yesiva, dismissed all charges against David Luchins▼
==Bob Dole===▼
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▲==Bob Dole===
In 1996 a request for $2.3 million in federal funding for a charitable project was accepted after [[Bob Dole]] interceded on his behalf. Dole had been a beneficiary of Balkany's political fundraising and got involved after the proposal had first been rejected by the [[U.S. Agency for International Development]].<ref>''Dole Fund-Raiser Got Helping Hand; Project Proposal Won Grant After Initial AID Rejection'', The Washington Post, Serge F. Kovaleski, April 8</ref> The request was in relation to funding for an obscure Yeshiva in Jerusalem run by Rabbi [[Shlomo Riskin]], ''Ohr Torah''. Balkany subsequently sued Riskin in a ''[[Beit Din]]'' for $200,000 over non-payment of fees related to his activism on his behalf.<ref name="dole">''Dole Emerging at Center Of Dispute Over Yeshiva'', Lucette Lagnado, The Forward, January 19, 1996</ref> Riskin argued that he had never asked Balkany to intercede with Dole on his behalf and refused to attend the hearings<ref name="dole"/>
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