Tag Archives: Yeshiva University

You Can Be Modern Or You Can Be Orthodox Or You Can Lie To Yourself And Others

There is no way to reconcile Orthodox Judaism with modern disinterested scholarship. You can be Orthodoxprax (practice Orthodox Judaism while keeping your heretical views to yourself) but then you are not honest to the religion you practice. Orthodox academics making … Continue reading

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Chairman of Yeshiva University Business School Arrested in $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme

Gadi Pickholz emails: Chairman of Yeshiva University Syms School of Business indicted in one of the largest ponzi schemes in history, as much as $50 BILLION — not million. Sorry, something is fundamentally wrong. From an analytic and statistical approach, … Continue reading

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Rabbi Emanuel Rackman Dead

I got an email from a shul saying: "The funeral will be in [Israel]." Emanuel Rackman was one of the great minds of Modern Orthodoxy, a far greater intellect than Shalom Auslander‘s uncle Norman Lamm who beat him out for … Continue reading

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Judaism’s Insights Into The Financial Crisis

Rabbi Gil Student writes: The Time website has an article about two scholarly articles about Jewish business ethics and the current financial cresis (link). One article is by R. Aaron Levine, chairman of the Economics Department at Yeshiva University, and … Continue reading

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What Would The Talmud Do?

From Time.com: 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 … Continue reading

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