ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the semiotic commentary with a pragmatic sensibility presumes that the implications of significations of race or ethnicity raise puzzling and confusing questions about the benefits and costs of confidence in the law. The Critical Legal Studies Movement originated in law schools in the 1970s. Politically, its participants were critics of the likes of the Vietnam War, United States racial politics and the unequal distribution of wealth in the polity. The working hypothesis of the chapter is designed to analyse tricks in relation to the semiotic complexity of the law's significations and to practical politics. Analysis of Shaare Tefila Congregation coincides with a crucial disquiet about the law: whether there ought to be confidence in the law when it comes to a group's legal aspirations to use the law for counteracting acts of intolerance and threats to their group-identity. The roots of this disquiet are to be associated primarily with the Critical Legal Studies movement.
