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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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When will the redemption come?
Rabbi Gideon Sylvester asks when and how will the redemption come? Will the Messianic Times come? And what should we do in order to hasten it? Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Jewish State, Jews, Messianic, redemption, Torah, Tower of Babel
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Tisha B’Av Thoughts
RHR is deeply involved in this protest both because in many ways it connects directly to one of the most central messages of Tisha B’Av: Are we or can we become a unified society that truly cares about all of its components? Continue reading
Posted in Economic/Social Justice, General
Tagged Ashkenazim, destruction of the Second Temple, Hadash, housing rights, Judaism, Likud, Meretz, protest, religious, RHR, secular, Sephardim, Talmud, Tisha B'Av, Torah, הרהורי ט' באב
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Something is Happening Out There | Rabbis Against Price Tags | Shavuot Thoughts: Human Rights Were Designed For the Real World
There is a cooperation agreement between Israelis from Karmel settlement, who harass the Palestinian shepherds. You can change this – by addressing a letter to the Defense Minister, Ehud Barak Continue reading
Posted in Parasha / E-Letter
Tagged 2006 High Court victory, A-Sawya, Amidar, Awarta, Book of Ruth, Caleb, Canadian Friends of Peace Now:, DCD, Defense Minister, extremist, Finance Committee, Joshua, Mizra Qablia, Mughayar, not succeeded in plowing, Palestinian, plowing, Rabbi Barry Leff, Rabbis Against Price Tags, semi-public housing, set the local mosque on fire, Shavuot, Spies Affair, Torah, Um El Chir, Zionist leaders
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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
Memory Unification – Yom Haatzmut Eve
On Memorial Day we should stand together and honor the memories of those who were killed because they were Israelis. Continue reading
Promoting Enduring Peace
Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of Promoting Enduring Peace, dear friends, From the Bottom of my heart, I want to thank you for the great honour which you have bestowed upon me, upon my friend Rabbi Asherman and upon all our colleagues in Israel, members of Rabbis for Human Rights. We are proud and humbled to receive this prestigious award and to join the list of such distinguished people, past recipients of this outstanding award. Continue reading
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Tagged 1988, Abraham, Adam, Annual Memorial Day, Auschwitz, award, Egypt, first Executive Director, Gandhi Peace Award, humiliation de-humanization, Intifada, Israel Defense Force, Jewish religious perspective, Khan Yunis, Leviticus, Lot, May Day, Never Again, oppression, Palestinian uprising, persecution, Promoting Enduring Peace, Rabbi, Rabbi Asherman, Rabbi David Forman Z”L, Rabbi David Rosen, Rabbi Max Warshawsky Z”L, Rabbinic Human Rights Watch, Torah, West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Yehuda Amichai
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Land Dispute and Land Rights in the Holy Land
Readers of the Bible are no doubt aware of the Divine promise made to the ancestors of the Jewish people, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that their descendants would inherit the land of Israel. Continue reading
If you are organizing a group tour to Israel/Palestine or traveling on your own, Rabbis for Human Rights would be happy to meet with you!
Rewards and Punishments
This week Rabbi Arik Ascherman have many more questions than answers. Parashat BeKhukotai closes out the book of Leviticus. It contains a list of the good things that will befall us if we obey God’s commandments, and the punishments that will come about if we are not faithful. Rabbi Acherman finds various disturbing and difficult questions that arise from this portion. Continue reading →