Israel Wild Western tour

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Rabbi Colin Eimer

Just under a month ago Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner was part of a group of nearly 20 Reform and Liberal rabbis who, together with some members from our communities, spent a week in Israel with Rabbis for Human Rights. Continue reading →

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Meeting with non-Jews strengthens Judaism

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Nico Socolovsky

Only after Moses listens to his father in law and absorbs his feedback and criticism, de-centralization is established, and the People of Israel can make the step that enabled them to grow and come to their constitutive event as a nation – the receiving of the 10 commandments at Mt. Sinai. cc: flickr by RivaJethroKyrill – Name Jitro/Yitro in Hebrew

Parashat Jethro is the fifth parasha in Exodus. This parasha is full of substance, thought-provoking suggestions, and invites us to review in order to renew and build a nation Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Exodus, Gaza, parashat Jethro, Receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai | 1 Comment

Compassion and mercy

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took part in protests held in cities across the country on Saturday night, the largest collaborative protest yet in a popular movement over social issues that has swept the country in the past two weeks.

Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann: “I say, as does the Torah as interpreted by the rabbis, “and thou shall choose life”! That is how our sages understood the text here, turning Moses’s demand to apply the good and the right into a principle of mercy” Continue reading →

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Plowing in South Hebron Hills | Enable the Flotilla to arrive in Gaza | Destruction of El-Arakib |

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Rabbis for Human Rights

Dolev Rahat returns with experiences and impressions from the journey of destruction wrought by the Israeli Civil Administration at the Palestinian village of Bir El Id. Continue reading →

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Enable the Flotilla to arrive in Gaza

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Rabbis for Human Rights

We call upon the Israeli government to enable the flotilla to arrive in Gaza after having been checked by Israeli security forces for weapons and explosives. We call upon the organizers of the flotilla to enable their ships to be checked without violence. Continue reading →

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Human beings are not bargaining chips

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Rabbis for Human Rights

by Lilachd. Gilad is still Alive. cc: flicker

Marking five years since the capture of Gilad Shalit, Israeli, Palestinian and international human rights organizations state: Hamas must immediately end inhumane and illegal treatment of Gilad Shalit Continue reading →

Posted in General, Media | Tagged Gaza, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, International Committee of the Red Cross | 2 Comments

Rewards and Punishments

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Rabbi Arik Ascherman

cc: wikipedia Israelites Carried Captive (illustration from the 1890 Holman Bible)

This week Rabbi Arik Ascherman have many more questions than answers. Parashat BeKhukotai closes out the book of Leviticus. It contains a list of the good things that will befall us if we obey God’s commandments, and the punishments that will come about if we are not faithful. Rabbi Acherman finds various disturbing and difficult questions that arise from this portion. Continue reading →

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HAGADDA SUPPLEMENTS 5771

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Rabbis for Human Rights

WHO SITS WITH US AT OUR SEDER? Eloheinu v’Elohei Kadmoneinu (Avoteinu, Avoteinu vEmoteinu), our God and God of our ancestors, we are gathered around this seder table as b’nei khorin, free people commanded to remember our dark nights of oppression. We … Continue reading →

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