Sunday, October 12, 2008

THE FINANCIAL CRISIS: What Would the Talmud Do? asks David Van Biema in Time Magazine.
Would the current financial crisis have been avoided if traders followed Jewish traditions embodied in the Bible and the Talmud? Two scholars from the Conservative and Orthodox branches of the Judaism are suggesting just that. They also conclude that the tradition prescribes significant regulation to begin to redress the debacle.

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