"Vanity oh Vanities, All is Vanity".So, begins the words of Kohelet, (Ecclesiastes), which is read on Succot, the Holiday of the Harvest. Supposedly one of the happiest of holidays, one wonders why we would diminish the joy of Succot with the morosings of an old King -- by reading twelve...

Special Co-Vid 19 responses have been targeted to the elderly (of whatever age cut-off a politician designates) on the basis that age, itself, constitutes and a unique vulnerability to the disease. This Essay challenges that assumption on the basis of newer epidemiological evidence which I...

Oratorical talent and the ability to forge unity and bipartisanship have been touted as important qualifications for our next president. Many assert these traits are necessary to lead us out of our current quagmires, e.g. recession, war, and the crisis in health care. This article examines the...

This is an original, hypothetical case study to be used for teaching quot;arithmetically aversequot; students of all ages. Chapter one has already been posted on SSRN. This chapter, a continuation of the quot;Robin Hood and His Outliers Saga, an Introduction to Basic Statistics,quot; illustrates...

Israel is the second country in the world to enact a product liability scheme in a comprehensive coordinated fashion (i.e., as a Directive, Restatement or Statute) after the United States and before the European Union and Britain. Its schema, statutorily, however is hydra-headed. Thus actions...

The Art Deco movement was launched by the Parisien Exp of 1925, but the design forces and luminaries initiating the mode began their work decades before. The work of Charles-Eduard Jeanneret (who would later rename himself 'Le Corbusier) was perhaps the earliest force launching the aesthetic....

Polygenic Risks Scores (PRS) are compiled based on a holistic evaluation of the entire genome. It has been recommended for use in conjunction with IVF, and currently, the technique has been advertised to enable parents to select the “healthiest” embryo. Soon, however, technology will support...

The Book of Job – the original “when bad things happen to good people” story is so troubling, so heinous, so rank unbelievable to most of us, that we react by denial, or worse. So awful is it, that many, including the Rambam (Maimonides), claim it is an allegory or a parable. That...

This article examines the three diplomatic accords made between Abraham and Avimelech, the King of the Philistines for the purpose of deriving insights that might be useful in the current climate. Among the diplomatic tools employed by Abraham is a form of economic statecraft, economic...

Public health experts have been predicting imminent threat of pandemic influenza. The latest US preparedness plans use the single statistic of case-fatality as the basis to evaluate any new threats. On this basis, Avian flu (H5N1) has been declared the single pandemic threat of concern, such...