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Religious Liberty, the Supreme Court, and the Jews

Questions of religious liberty reflect an ever increasing partisanship within the Jewish community. What steps can we take to address this challenge?
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Dr. Michael (Avi) Helfand is a Senior Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He is currently the Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law and Religion and Co-Director of the Nootbaar Institute for Law, Religion and Ethics at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law as well as Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. Avi received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his Ph.D. in Political Science

Dahlia Lithwick

The last four years have seen a dramatic transformation of the Supreme Court, leading many experts to wonder what the future holds. At the same time, over the last two decades the Jewish community has seen a partisan trend in which it no longer speaks to the court in a unified voice. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to questions of religious liberty in which the Jewish community has played a significant role.

Dahlia Lithwick and Avi Helfand discussed the ways the Jewish community engages the Supreme Court, how questions of religious liberty reflect an ever increasing partisanship within the Jewish community, and what steps we might take to address this challenge.

Program recorded on January 14, 2021.

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