Religious reason for refusing testimony

[Will Linden]

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Sanford Levinson wrote:

> Even if Jewish law (rather than "Jewish religion") prohibits "testifying"
> against their daughter, it's not clear to me how that would apply to an
> interview with prosecutors, unless one gives a very wide meaning indeed to
> the term "testimony."  Perhaps they want to invoke the tradition of
 Jewish law does not prevent people from having their children EXECUTED.
(The law of the "stubborn and rebellious son").

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