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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 Beating and Why I Come Back for More
This post was written by Amitai Ben-Abba, Ta’ayush activist, following an attack by settlers in the south of the West Bank. It illustrates the ‘Ta’ayush way’ and the determination/commitment of these amazing people. Continue reading
Posted in General, Palestinian Rights
Tagged Friends of Ta'ayush, Palestinian Susya, Ta'ayush
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Counting Rights – Parashot Tazria Metzora Newsletter
The Counting of the Omer started and slowly we accumulate the first fruits of human rights control. Things are getting to the media and from there to the public. For example: our post on the expanding of the illegal outpost Avigail that was published last week, and this week we can read about this in Akiva Eldar’s article who quoted Rabbi Arik Ascherman in his column in Haaretz. Continue reading
Posted in Parasha / E-Letter
Tagged Akiva Eldar, Arab, Arabs and Jews lives in Israel., Avigail, Avigayil, Beit Shean, Btselem, CourtCase of the "Cave Neighbors, eviction, outh Hebron Hills, Perli Shachar interviewed Rabbi Ascherman regarding Rachel on Reshet B', racism, radio, rhr on the media, rhr on the radio, Samicha Jihad Nawajaa, Silwan, Solidarity Seich Jarach, South Hebron Mountains, Ta'ayush, Tazria-Metzora, the destruction of water wells and outhouse structures, water wells
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Avigail illegal outpost in the South Hebron Hills
Rabbi Arik Ascherman updated about a big campaign that is running in the occupied territories to expand an illegal outpost by robbing Palestinian land in South Hebron Hills. The DCO and the army do not enforce the court order to stop the work and the Palestinians pay the price. Continue reading
Posted in General, Palestinian Rights
Tagged Avigail, DCO officials, illegal outpost in OT, South Hebron Hills, South Hebron Mountains, Ta'ayush
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In South Hebron hills, Palestinians always fear the next demolition
Dolev Rahat returns with experiences and impressions from the journey of destruction wrought by the Israeli Civil Administration at the Palestinian village of Bir El Id, located in the South Hebron Hills Continue reading
Towamin – The struggle for the realization of rights
Following our petition to the Supreme Court about a month ago on the issue of the South Hebron Hills, Wadi Towamin was closed to Settlers. But a signature on a piece of paper is not enough, and the struggle for the enforcement of the order still continues every day. Continue reading
Posted in Legal Work
Tagged arrests, attack by masked men, border police, causing damage, criminal offense, Enforcing the law, order, Palestinian, palestinian shephers, protect the rights of farmers and shepherds, South Hebron Hills, Supreme Court, Ta'ayush, Towamin, violation of the order, Wadi Towamin
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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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Palestinian Rights Department
Learn more from Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann about The Palestinian Rights Department of RHR. Continue reading
Posted in Palestinian Rights
Tagged 2005, 2008, 2010, 30 Palestinian villages, 3000 trees were destroyed, A supreme Court decision, affirming the right of local Palestinian farmers to access their lands unharrassed by settlers, arbitrary arrest, Army’s Legal Advisors’ Office, BeTzelem, collective punishment, confiscation of equipment, harvest, Israeli police, Italian NGO, Jerusalem, language classes, legal work and advocacy, lobbying, olive harvest, OPT Department, Palestinian Rights Department, Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann, radical Jewish settlers, RHR, Samaria, school for Bedouin, South Hebron Hills, summer camps, Ta'ayush, the plight of the Bedouin, Viento deTerra, volunteers, West Bank, Yesh Din
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