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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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Channeling the Good in That Which Would Enslave Us: Passover Thoughts 5773 | Rabbi Arik Ascherman
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The Israel I Cherish
TEMPLE EMANU-EL-BETH SHOLOM, 395 Elm Avenue, Westmount, THE GOLDBLOOM FAMILY FORUM Presents: Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Director of External Relations, Rabbis for Human Rights –
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Stop the eviction of the Jahalin Bedouin to the dump: Parashat “B’Shalach” – Our Weekly commentary
Parashat “B’Shalach”: The weekly report of Rabbis for Human Rights In the political arena the government is increasing home demolitions in Um El Kheir, Anata, Jahalin, and in Silwan. In the social area, the coalition for attainable housing reveals that … Continue reading
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Tagged 972Magazine, Activestills, Anata, At-Tuwani, B'Shalach, CNN, Hamaabara, home demolitions, ICAHD, Jahalin, Jahalin Bedouin, Miriam, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Rabbi Barry Leff, Rabbi Gideon Sylvester, settlement Karmel, settlements Maaleh Levonah and Givat Haroe, settler violence, Silwan, Silwan demolitions, South Hebron Hills, South Hebron Mountains, Um El Kheir
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Give the money of Prazot to those who need public housing
The public housing issue and the money that is restricted money of Prazot do not leave our social agenda. Continue reading
Extreme Rambling with Mark Thomas | From light to darkness | Public Appeal: How to Maintain Human Rights when Rockets are being launched from Civil Population in Gaza
We continue with our uncompromising efforts to wear two hats at the same time. One hat is to be a part of the political protest against the injustice that has been done beyond the green line. The Social hat is to protest for public housing
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Posted in Parasha / E-Letter
Tagged Bedouin face bulldozers, danger of demolition, demonstration in Anatot, Dqeiqa, farmers of Tubas, Israel Land Adminisration, Israeli Civil Administration, Jordan valley, Mark Thomas, Moriel Rotman, Nir Barkat, Peace Now, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Rabbi Idit Lev, settlement Mtzudot Yehuda, South Hebron Hills, The electricity system of Manzel, the encampments in Jerusalem
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Something is Happening Out There
Rabbi Arik Ascherman: “Rachel Levi lives in an Amidar (semi-public housing) apartment and has an eviction notice for Wednesday the 22nd. We need your Help.” Continue reading
Tour of East Jerusalem
Our Beit Midrash for Human Rights spends many hours in the classroom studying sources and meeting rabbis and activists to learn about Judaism’s understanding of Human Rights and how it can be out into practice. Continue reading
Rabbi Working For Peace
Here is some of RHR media coverage. Read the various reactions to the U.S visit of Rabbi Arik Ascherman, RHR executive director, to accept Gandhi Peace Award. Continue reading
Gandhi Peace Award
The Gandhi Peace Award was presented to Rabbi Arik Ascherman, General Secretary of Rabbis for Human Rights, and Rabbi Ehud Bandel, a co-founder of the organization. Continue reading
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Tagged 1960, a Japanese peace award, Benjamin Spock, César Chávez, Daniel Ellsberg, Dorothy Day, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi Peace Award, human rights for Palestinians in Israel, Jewish tradition, Niwano, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Rabbi Ehud Bandel, Rabbis for Human Rights, William Sloane Coffin
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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
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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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