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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Zvi Zohar - We Were Strangers in Egypt
Description: Professor Zvi Zohar, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Sephardic Law and Ethics - Bar-Ilan University, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "We Were Strangers in Egypt: Our Attitude as Jews to non-Jewish Strangers" before an audience at Congregation Or Tzion (www.congregationortzion.org) in Scottsdale, AZ.
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: The Torah only tells us how to relate to converts, leaving us with no instructions with regard to aliens/strangers. This lecture presents a textual analysis of Jewish approaches to understanding "the stranger" from ancient times until the current day.
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