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Program 686: The Concept of Justice in Jewish Law

Justice Haim Cohn, of the Supreme Court of Israel, claims that justice must be individualized according to time, place, and person in order to fulfill its function in the administration of the law, a thesis of adaptability which he defends in the light of other panelists' arguments in favor of a universal principle of meta-justice. Participants include Jerald Brauer, Rick Carlson, Emil L. Fackenheim, Norton Ginsburg, Robert Gordis, Alfred Gottschalk, Robert M. Hutchins, Jacob Petuchowsky, Lord Ritchie-Calder, Ellis Rivkin, Nathan Rotenstreich, Gershom G. Scholem, R.J. Zwi Werblowski, and John Wilkinson. Jewish Traditions II. Sept. 10, 1973. [CSDI program number 686; UCSB tape numbers A8367/R7, A8368/R7, A8369/R7, A8370/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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