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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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An appeal against a demolition: The Passover Newsletter
This week we appealed to the Supreme Court on two issues that we think should be on our social and political agenda. Firstly we appealed against the systematic neglect of the public housing apartments. Secondly we, together with the village of Mnezel, appealed against the demolition of the solar panels of the village Continue reading
Social justice protesters back on the streets – Newsletter of Passover
While the protest is back on the streets and hope fills the eyes, we published an annual activity report inspired by the protest. We are still fighting to stop the evictions, and the imminent elections and the social pressure are starting to bring results. Shabat Shalom and happy Passover. Continue reading
Posted in Parasha / E-Letter
Tagged "Light Tag", annual activity report, comet me, Ir Amim, Jewish, Kamha Depasha, Kamha Depasha Mitzvah, Muslim, Nifgaei Zhuyot Adam, Passover, Rabbi Anita Steiner, Rights Center in Hedera, social justice, Solar demolitions in South Hebron mountains, South Hebron Hills, South Hebron Mountains, the destruction of the solar panels, Toulouse
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Passover Thoughts 5772
Rabbi Arik Ascherman thinks that we will be free only when there will be justice and equality for everyone. Continue reading
Shavuot Thoughts: Human Rights Were Designed For the Real World
Rabbi Arik Ascherman: “The Torah is not needed by the angels, and its place is not in the heavens because it is a guide to human beings teaching us how to deal with the challenges of human life.” Continue reading
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
Posted in General
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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Shabbat HaGadol and Pesach
None of these victories are the cataclysmic act of salvation recounted in the exodus story. (And it is not enough to remove drops of wine from our seder cups when recounting the plagues, or to recite the midrash from Shir HaShirim Rabah containing God’s rebuke to the angels, “My children are drowning and you sing praises.” We truly do not want to see those with whom we are in conflict suffer anything close to the suffering of the Egyptians, not among our fellow Israelis and not among those beyond our borders.) Continue reading
Posted in Palestinian Rights
Tagged Amidar, Awarta, El-Arakib, Exodus, haggadah, Passover, Pesach, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Ramla, salvation, Shabbat HaGadol, Social Change Victories, Ta'ayush, The Valley of T'wamin
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