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Checks, charities and conversion classes: What the Epstein files show about Jeffrey Epstein’s Jewish world

February 26, 2026March 2, 2026Sara Wood

Sometime in the early 2010s, Jeffrey Epstein walked into Dr. Steven Kaplan’s office for a root canal. The procedure took some time and required multiple visits. The two men got to chatting. “He was just another guy, that’s it,” Kaplan recalled to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The subject of Judaism came up. “I wanted to […]

In Epstein’s birthday tribute, traces of his Jewish upbringing surface alongside lurid tales

September 10, 2025September 10, 2025Sara Wood

When Jeffrey Epstein turned 50 in 2003, his then-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell assembled a 238-page tribute album to mark the occasion. The so-called birthday book, handed over by Epstein’s estate to the House Oversight Committee and made public this week, is lurid and unsettling: filled with crude drawings of women’s bodies, tales of sexual conquest, and […]

Antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein are proliferating — and going mainstream

August 1, 2025August 2, 2025Sara Wood

WASHINGTON – Jason Epstein travels internationally as a public affairs consultant, and although he is a proud Jew, he does not announce it in countries where that might be an issue. Until now it hasn’t been a problem, he says: Last names immediately recognizable as Jewish in the West are not identified as such in […]