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Rabbu Yehiel Grenimann plating trees

On Tu Bishvat the IDF allowed the settlers to plant trees on robbed land of outposts that were built thanks to systematic and aggressive discrimination. But when Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann and volunteers of Rabbis for Human Rights wanted to help Palestinians to plant trees on their land, they were violently expelled. Continue reading

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To be Advised by a Non-Jew and Become Stronger: Newsletter of Parashat “Jethro”

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This week we are happy to announce two victories. On Wednesday we will go to plant trees in El Jenia, a village near Ramallah, that has been repeatedly attacked by Price Tag graffiti and other violence from the settlers in the area. Shabbat Shalom Continue reading

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Fighting for human rights has a price: Parashat “Shmot”

Demonstration for social justice, Hatikva neighborhood, Tel Aviv, Isreal, 07.01.2012. Israeli border policemen detain activists during a demonstration in which Hundreds of people called for housing rights for all and blocked roads in the southern neighborhood of Tel Aviv on Saturday, January 7, 2012. 45 people were arrested by the police. Eviction of the 16 families living in Hatikva tent camp, without a proper housing solution are expected to be evacuated soon.cc: flickr. Photo by: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org

Fighting for human rights has a price: Last Thursday Rabbi Arik Ascherman found himself in court because he tried to help families in Bir El Id. But this will not stop our demand for a universal and Jewish realization of human rights for all. Continue reading

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Open the Door to Refugees: Parashat “Vayehi”

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A fickle struggle to finish the olive harvest: Due to our uncompromising legal struggle, the Palestinian farmers of El Jenia and Quadum received a permit to finish their olive harvest, but the permit was for a day on which rain was expected and, as a result, was not carried out. The social struggle continues successfully Continue reading

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JNF for all the People of Israel: the newsletter of Parashat “Vayishlach”

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Parashat “VaYishlach” raises for Rabbi Gideon Sylvester question on the meeting of Judaism and Africa. Israel, that is located on the edge of Africa and inside Asia, also did not decided what is the social and status identity of its residents. But we continue to act against the decrees and for a different Jewish future for all. Continue reading

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Suspicion of “Price Tag” in the harvest of El Jenia

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The pressure we exerted on the DCO to give permission to harvest the olive groves in El Jenia (near the illegal outpost ‘Zait Raanan’) was successful, but at the same time we discovered in the grove a tree that had been cut down, and there is a suspicion that the settlers in this area did it. Continue reading

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Threats instead of harvest: the army is cooperating with the illegal outpost “Zait Raanan

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Despite threats to set dogs on the Plestinan farmers and the throwing of stones, the army is not ready to protect El Jenia’s farmers at the entrance to their grove near the illegal oupost “Zait Raanan”. Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann’s impressions from the discrimination in the occupied territories. Continue reading

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