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Human Rights Tour For Jewish Leadership
Join our Human Rights Tour For Jewish Leadership October 2nd- 9th
Please join RHR for 7 days of touring, experiencing and Torah study that will challenge and inspire Explore Israel’s Burning and Sometimes Confusing Human Rights Challenges With Israel’s Rabbinic Voice of Conscience. Become better informed, more knowledge
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Recurring Attacks on Palestinian Plowing: March 2013 Report
Recurring Attacks on Palestinian Plowing: March 2013 Report Continue reading
Posted in General, Palestinian Rights
Tagged A significant number of Palestinian farmers are still waiting for approval to enter their lands to plow, Aimtan, attacks on Palestinian herders, Awarta, Azmut, Beit Furik (above the Itamar settlement), blocked access to agricultural lands, Burin, damage to Palestinian equipment, Dir Hatib, disorder on the Palestinian Harvest, Ein Abus, Farata, harassment during the olive harvest, Harassments During Harvest, harvest, Harvest at the OT, Hawara, Jit, Karyut, Kufr Kadum, Madma, Mahms (near Migron), Mureir, Recurring Attacks on Palestinian Plowing: March 2013 Report, refusal of the DCO to allow the completion of the olive harvest for farmers, Repeated attacks on the Palestinian Harvest, Rujib, Salem, Sara, Sinjil, Tel, the army "dries" the Palestinians’ harvest lands, uprooting and cutting down of Palestinian trees, ‘Urif
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Harassments During Harvest, Damaging Fruit Orchards and New Demolition Orders to Hirbet Tuba: Rabbi Yehiel Grenimanns’s Report on Rabbis for Human Rights’ Activities in the OT
Rabbi Yehiel Grenimanns’s Report on Rabbis for Human Rights’ Activities in the OT Continue reading
Posted in General, Palestinian Rights
Tagged Awarta, Burin, Clowns Without Borders, Damaging Fruit Orchards, DCO, demolition, destroyed olive trees, Dir Amar, Farrata, Harassments During Harvest, Hill 777, Israeli settlers cut down Palestinian trees, Itamar, Jahalin Bedouin summer camps, Jahalin children, Khan El Achmar, Neriya, Preventing the Access of Palestinian Farmers to their Lands, South Hebron Hills, the ability to freely access their lands, the village of Mureir, Tuba, Uprooting Trees, Vienta de Tierra or the Combini Sisters, volunteers, Yanoun
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Plowing with army protection on their own lands but not during the “Festival of Freedom”
In most places the plowing has progressed without serious hitches this past week (the week before Pesach). Many villages were given four days to complete their plowing before the Jewish holiday and told there would not be security for them to continue plowing during the week of Pesach. Continue reading
Posted in General, Palestinian Rights
Tagged Awarta, El Genia, not succeeded in plowing, plowing, plowing days, plowing season in the OT
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A new police force in the settlements
Read how the police, IDF and the settlers work together while the rule of law is absent Continue reading
Posted in General, Palestinian Rights
Tagged Awarta, cooperation between the army and the settlers., detention by the security man of a settlement, Dror Etkes, Otniel, Police, Preventing access of Palestinian farmers to their agricultural lands, settlers who take on police work, the village of Hawara
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Experiences from the Olive Harvest
Rabbi Yehiel Grenniman Recounts Experiences from the Olive Harvest. Continue reading
Ushpizin | Thoughts on Intimacy and Compartmentalization | Injustice at the Harvest
Following is Dvar Torah for this week’s parasha, Parashat Bereshit, written by Rabbi Dalia Marx. We will be happy if you will join, the coming week, the olive harvest and watch our activities in the Jerusalem encampment. Hag Samech Continue reading
Posted in Parasha / E-Letter
Tagged army presence, Awarta, Bedouin, Burin, CNN, harvest, Jamain, Jit, Lehavim, olive harvest, Palestinian villages, Quadum, Rabbi Dalia Marx, Shalit, The Washington Post, Turmus-aya, Ushpizin, volunteers
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The Achievements and the Difficulties of the Activity to Maintain Human Rights in the OT
Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann describes the achievements and the difficulties of the activity to maintain human rights in the occupied territories. Continue reading
Something is Happening Out There | Rabbis Against Price Tags | Shavuot Thoughts: Human Rights Were Designed For the Real World
There is a cooperation agreement between Israelis from Karmel settlement, who harass the Palestinian shepherds. You can change this – by addressing a letter to the Defense Minister, Ehud Barak Continue reading
Posted in Parasha / E-Letter
Tagged 2006 High Court victory, A-Sawya, Amidar, Awarta, Book of Ruth, Caleb, Canadian Friends of Peace Now:, DCD, Defense Minister, extremist, Finance Committee, Joshua, Mizra Qablia, Mughayar, not succeeded in plowing, Palestinian, plowing, Rabbi Barry Leff, Rabbis Against Price Tags, semi-public housing, set the local mosque on fire, Shavuot, Spies Affair, Torah, Um El Chir, Zionist leaders
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Finally Plowing
Rabbi Yehiel Greniman brings us the latest news from his work at the OPT. Continue reading
Posted in Palestinian Rights
Tagged agricultural work, Avraham ben Naomi, Awarta, Beit Furik, Buma, Coordination with the Palestinian and Israeli DCO's, DCO, Dir Istiya, entry permits for family, Havat Gilad, Havat Yakir, Hirbat Schadi, humanitarian concern, Jonathan, Madison Route, NPA, plowing, plowing days, problem with settlers, procrastination, Rejub, Samar Zietuni, serious injury, settlers, Wadi Kanna, Zakaria
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HAGADDA SUPPLEMENTS 5771
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
Posted in Palestinian Rights
Tagged Abu-Wael of Farata, Adir Hu, Amidar, Awarta, b'nei khorin, Bedouin, Beit Sha'an, collective punishmen, Egypt, El-Arakib, El-Kurd, Elijah, Gaza, Gilad Shalit, HAGADDA, Hanoun, Israeli Democracy, Issawiyah, justice, Nablus Region, oppression, Our ancestor was a wandering Aramean, Pharaoh, Public Housing, Rabi Natan, Residents of East Jerusalem, SEDER, Silwan, Sudanese Refugees, The Ghawi, Western Negev
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