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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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Rabbis for Human Rights Hagaddah Supplements 5772
WHO SITS WITH US AT OUR SEDER? Continue reading
Posted in Economic/Social Justice, Education, General, Legal Work, Palestinian Rights
Tagged 5772, African Refugees, Al Arakib, Farmers of El-Jenya, freedom, Hagaddah Supplements, Hallel, INJUSTICES, Jahalin Bedouin, Jericho, Jerusalem, KKL-JNF, Pesach, Pharaoh, Public Housing, Residents of East Jerusalem, SEDER, Silwan, Susya, The Four Children at the Seder Table
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April in the OT
The week of Pesach might have been a festive season for we Israeli Jews but in the OPT and East Jerusalem it was a time of curfews, tension and hardship as usual. Specifically. Continue reading
Posted in Palestinian Rights
Tagged 143 trees cut down, aggressive border guard presenc, arrests, attack against a lone farmer, curfews, East Jerusalem, Farata, grave of Joseph, hardship, occupied territories, Pesach, Samaria, saving a life, settler violence, Silwan, tear gas, tension, Twamin, Yesh Din
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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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After Purim and Before Pesach Thoughts
I pray that there will come a day when there will be not poor people in our country and in the world and everybody will be able to live in dignity. Continue reading
Posted in Economic/Social Justice
Tagged dignity, Megilat Esther, Merkaz Hadera, Mishlochei Manot, mitzvah, Pesach, Purim, Rambam
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