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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: Dov Linzer - Unequal Justice? Jew/Non-Jew Distinctions in Civil and Criminal Halakha
Description: Rabbi Dov Linzer, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (https://www.yctorah.org/) presents his lecture "Unequal Justice? Jew/Non-Jew Distinctions in Civil and Criminal Halakha) before a roundtable audience at Temple Kol Ami (www.templekolami.org/) in Scottsdale, AZ.
ABOUT THIS LECTURE: One of our basic democratic principles is that everyone deserves equal treatment under the law. In religious law, however, there tends to be a privileging of those who are members of the faith over those who are not. While this makes sense in matters of ritual, it would seem deeply unfair, indeed unethical, to apply such distinctions...