Epstein Secrets

rs in Britain were often thrown into jail (as in Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit"), though Samuel Johnson

reward for capital, a concept that goes back to Aristotle and is implicit in the Christian idea of usury. Islam forbids it altogether. The book of Deuteronomy suggested a debt amnesty every seven years, which survived into later Jewish custom. But conventional morality has not always been on the side of th

operations to offshore natural gas. For its CEO, Charles Davidson, the Israeli offer was an opportunity t

ed by Christian fundamentalists who were literally relying on the Word of God as their guide. One wildcatter in the 1960s was led by a passage from Deuteronomy to conclude there was oil located somewhere on the ancient lands of the tribe of Asher, on "the foot of Asher" between Haifa and Caesarea. No luck.

high standards. He was an African American named Charles Duncan, who, I later was told, was the son of the

s not merely that we be just, or even that we do justice, but rather that we actively pursue justice, as if injustice never rests. The exact words of Deuteronomy—which I recalled because I recited them in my Bar Mitzvah portion—were “Justice, justice, you must actively chase after.” The traditional translation

nce unexpected loud noise continues to occur. Sir Charles Sherrington, the early Twentieth Century British

case, how would one chose which one.” In fact, there remains an on-going debate about the order with which the embedded four passages from Exodus and Deuteronomy should be arranged and inserted in the ftefillin such that some compromising orthodox Jews wear two types of fefi/lin, each representing one of the t