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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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The Torah given out from darkness: Dvar Torah – Parashat “Ki Tavo”
The prophetic great light of the end of days is kept for those who succeed in finding light in the darkness of our existence, in the miserable protest tents, in the periphery, among the weak and vulnerable, where there is no light, and for those who do not give up on light in spite of the darkness and continue to look for it, like the cockerel. Continue reading
The Dark Side of the Labor Market
Did you work in a place where you have not been paid? Or have you been abused and/or humiliated? Or your rights have been broken? Join the project of workers testimonies on exploitation, abuse and humiliation in the labor market. Continue reading
Remember Shmita
Our state is 63 years old. Nico Socolovsky asks us not to lose hope of being a free, just and a civilized people. Continue reading
Promoting Enduring Peace
Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of Promoting Enduring Peace, dear friends, From the Bottom of my heart, I want to thank you for the great honour which you have bestowed upon me, upon my friend Rabbi Asherman and upon all our colleagues in Israel, members of Rabbis for Human Rights. We are proud and humbled to receive this prestigious award and to join the list of such distinguished people, past recipients of this outstanding award. Continue reading
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The Origin of the Minyan
Rabbi Gil Nativ wish to concentrate on how the rabbis employed these four words to establish an important concept in our tradition: the concept of the Minyan. Continue reading
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Tagged beTokh, Catholic, counting, Emor, Kedushah, Kiddushin, Kohnim, Leviticus, Minyan, Rabbinic literature, women in the minyan
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Magic and Human Rights
Rabbi Gideon D Sylvester checks what’s wrong with magic and what does it have to do with this week’s festival of Passover and the world of human rights? Continue reading
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Tagged care for the oppressed, Human Rights, Jews, justice, Kedoshim, kindness, Laws of Idolatry, Leviticus, Magic, non-Jews, Passover, Rambam, Ramban, Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch
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Rewards and Punishments
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 →