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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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Living in a Giant Government Boarding School: The ‘We Will Do and Listen’ Issue of Public Housing in Bet Shean
This week we again enjoyed the hospitality of the twelfth grade in Bet Shean’s Jezreel Valley West – Yif’at school, as part of the social studies curriculum. The students received a full explanation of our activities. Continue reading
Press Release: Instead of Succot, building a house for one who has none. Published on the blog of Rabbis for Human Rights
Rachel Levi-Davida calls on other homeless men and women to follow her example and set up such social “outposts.” She hopes to slowly create a trend whereby vulnerable citizens take control of their fate and build themselves housing without government help: building a home in place of the one seized by the state. Continue reading
Mental disorders and anxiety among women waiting for public housing: Rabbi Idit Lev on the programme “Seder Yom”
New research shows that women waiting for public housing suffer from three times more mental disorder and anxiety than other women Continue reading
S is in great trouble, without a home, without a proper income and the State of Israel does nothing to help him
More than 6 months ago Rabbi Idit lev wrote a post by the name So that we may never be humiliated or put to shame, about Moshe Silman without mentioning his name. He came to our center in Hadera looking for help. Rabbi lev realized that he was desperate Continue reading
First time on the beach: Newsletter for the parashat “Balak”
This world is filled with lawyers who can help us find a way to do an end run around the spirit of the law, even as we observe the letter of the law. Rabbi Arik Ascherman connects the social current affairs and out parasha and shows us the right direction. Continue reading
Posted in Parasha / E-Letter
Tagged Akiva Eldar, Balak, D.C.O, Haaretz, Jahalin, Knesset, Nico Sokolovsky, Palestinian Susya, Preventing the Access of Palestinian Farmers to their Lands, Public Housing, Rabbi Gideon Sylvester, RHR in the newspapers, Rights Center manager of Hadera, Supreme Court, Susya
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Keeping the Letter of the Law, but Violating its Spirit: Dvar Torah for Parshat Balak
This world is filled with lawyers who can help us find a way to do an end run around the spirit of the law, even as we observe the letter of the law. Rabbi Arik Ascherman connects the social current affairs and out parasha and shows us the right direction Continue reading
Stop (again) the eviction of the Al-Aju family
The al-Aju family’s struggle is part of the national struggle of families in public housing for their rights to decent housing and against the greed for profit of Amidar. See event on Facebook. Continue reading
Posted in Economic/Social Justice, General
Tagged Abed al-Razak al-Aju, Al-Aju family, Amidar, eviction, Public Housing, Ramle
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What is Going On in Beit Shaean
On Thursday (7.6) our human rights center in Beit Shean was granted the prize of “exceptional project” by the Emek Israel college. The department of Human services in Emek Israel is cooperating with many bodies in the North, among them, municipalities, high tech companies and different social organizations. Continue reading
Today Ruth Would be Considered an Infiltrator and Forbidden from Gleaning
Shavuot Thoughts for 5772 on Acting with the Solidarity of Ruth and Naomi Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Bir El Id, Housing Minister Atias, Infiltrator, Jahalin, Ma'abara, midrash, Moabites, Naomi, Parashat Emor, Public Housing, Rabbi Ben Hollandar z"l, Rage vs Africans erupts, Ruth, Ruti Kedem, Shavuot Thoughts for 5772, Sodom, South Hebron Hills, tikkun leyl Shavuot, Vicki Vanunu
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A small sink tells a big story: a report from Beit Shean
Rabbi Kobbi Weis shows us how the public housing company goes about repairing a sink in one of the public housing apartments in Beit Shean. Continue reading
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