A rabbi from Yeshiva University and a rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary – the flagship institutions of modern Orthodoxy and Conservative Judaism, respectively, told Time magazine that if bankers and Wall Streeters had held by the rules of the Talmud, none of this economic jibber-jabber would have happened.
Rabbi Aaron Levine, chair of the economics department at Y.U., and Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, a professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at JTS, assert that rabbinical law would have prevented many of the shenanigans that got us into this mess.
