Time, perhaps, to forgive debts as poor countries sink deeper amid a pandemic recession

They say history never repeats itself, but often rhymes. So it seems with the Jewish celebration of “shmita” and Jubilee years, which I bumped into by chance last week during a random walk through the verses of Leviticus.It seems that the coming first night of the Jewish festival of Sukkot, which commemorates the 40 years the Jewish people wandered homeless in the desert, and which starts from September 20, will be the start of the Jewish “shmita year”, and quite a big deal.Shmita comes around…

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