>>511068207There's no reason to take the deal as a non-Jew. The Torah forbids lending money at interest to other Jews, but it doesn't say anything about "investments." So they basically write up a mortgage contract that calls itself an investment instead of a loan with roughly the same profits for the mortgage company. It's not in any matter of finance any better than a normal mortgage really, but it doesn't technically break the rules about Jews lending to each other.
>But isn't that just pretending to comply with the law instead of complying with it?Yes, from the same people who hang a wire around city blocks so they can call it "indoors" and go out on the sabbath, which is just one of dozens of sabbath workarounds. Unironically part of Jesus's main complaints with Judaism in his time, the focus on the letter of the law instead of the spirit.
This rabbi explains it at some point in this video, along for his reasoning for why a good/smart Jew should never work in lending. Also discusses Hitler and the drive against communist Jews in Weimar;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoGWWiGyhdc