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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 Press Council will discuss the complaint against “Israel Hayom”
The “Keshev” organization has issued a complaint to the Press Council against the newspaper for deleting parts of Moshe Silman’s letter which blamed the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Treasury for his situation. The Board of Ethics of the council has decided to follow up the complaint. Continue reading
Being poor in Israel
Rabbi Idit Lev, looking back in a moment of reflection, following the death of Moshe Silman Continue reading
Posted in Economic/Social Justice, General
Tagged Amidar, Black Labour, bureaucracy, Hachzit HaHaifait, Moshe Silman, poverty in Israel, single mothers, survival in the social system of Israel, the rights center in Hadera, we on the internet, You can not live on Bituach Leumi allowance
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Much water cannot put it out
As a Jew I do not justify suicide, and it does not matter if it’s the suicide of the hero Samson, of those at the fortification ofMasadaor of Moshe Silman at the demonstration on Shabbat evening a week ago. Life is given to us without our permission and it is also taken away without our permission or objection. Continue reading
Farewell, Moshe Silman: Israel cares more for the dead than the living.
Moshe Silman was entitled to burial costs from Bituach Leumi after he died but not to a place to live when he was alive. Rabbi Kobi Weiss hopes that the right to die with respect will be echoed by the right to live with respect for those insist to live. Continue reading
You are the ones who should apologize
Moshe Silman’s act presents us all with a burning mirror, a shocking reflection of the existing policy. Continue reading
Posted in Economic/Social Justice, General
Tagged "Haoketz", Adam Dovchinski, Bibi, Dror Dvir, free market, Hazit Ha'Haifait, Kobi Arieli, Member of Knesset Arieh Bibi, Member of Knesset Orly Levy Abecassis, Members of Knesset, Moshe Silman, Niko Sokolovsk, parliamentary assistant, Rabbi Idit Lev, The Amidar official, the Haifa Front, The main protest site, the Ministry of Housing., The prime minister, We refuse to apologize., החזית החיפאית
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Please Continue to Pray for Moshe Silman
The situation of Moshe Silman continues to be extremely severe. On this first day of Ramadan and this Shabbat, we ask you to pray on Moshe’s behalf Continue reading
A country which destroys its citizens: The story of Moshe Silman
On Shabat evening, 14.7 during a demonstration on Kaplan St. where Moshe Silman set fire to himself, in protest at the terrible economic situation he was in and at his mistreatment by state and government institutions. The following will try to clarify how Moshe got to this stage. Continue reading
Posted in Economic/Social Justice, General
Tagged 100 percent disability, appeal, Bituach Leumi, Director of Social Justice at Rabbis for Human Rights, food, Haifa encampment, Haifa municipality, Homeless, Idit Lev, medicine, Member of Knesset Orly Levy Abecassis, Ministry of Housing, Moshe Silman, Moshe Silman set fire to himself, poverty, The rejection letter, welfare
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