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Jewish sources have a lot to say about money. Scattered across the Talmud and its commentaries is a body of financial wisdom that Buffett, Graham, and Munger would only formalize thousands of years later. Here are ten Jewish rules that still hold up. 1. Diversify — never stake everything on one position The ancient source […]
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I was 10 years old, standing in my father’s family backyard at a lobster bake, surrounded by food my family and I could not eat. While everyone feasted on shellfish, we unwrapped our kosher tuna fish sandwiches. No one made a scene. We knew who we were, and we knew why we ate differently. But […]
A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Law School, Roy K. Altman served as a decorated federal prosecutor, twice earning the Department of Justice’s highest honor (the Director’s Award for Superior Performance) and named Federal Prosecutor of the Year in 2013. In 2019 he became the youngest federal district court judge in the country, and […]
From roughly 850 to 1200 CE, following the rise of the Abbasid Caliphate, an estimated 90% of Jews worldwide lived in the Islamic world and spoke Arabic as their native tongue. But Arabic wasn't merely a new vessel for old ideas. It became the language in which Jews produced original, groundbreaking works of philosophy, grammar, […]
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The tefillin debate that's dividing the Jewish community.
