I am moved by zeal for the Lord, the God of Hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and put your prophets to the sword. I alone am left, and they are out to take my life.
‘Come out’, He called, ‘and stand on the mountain before the Lord.’
And lo, the [...]

This week’s Torah portion is Balak, full of dramatic stories as Balak calls upon Balaam to curse the Israelites. Only able to do what God tells him to say, Balaam blesses instead of curses. However, the Israelites manage to curse themselves by allowing the Moabite/Midianite women to entice them into engaging in idolatry. At God’s [...]

Dear Robert,*
When I received an invitation to lead a tour of the security barrier around Jerusalem for your group, I was more than pleased to accept. You have been an avid supporter of progressive causes in Israel. Like many of my colleagues and friends who belong to the liberal camp in this country, we appreciate [...]

Israel has lived in a perpetual state of war and terror since its establishment 60 years ago. For two-thirds of its existence, it has occupied another people. It is an unnatural state of affairs for Jews, who have experienced so much pain and suffering at the hand of others, to find themselves in such a [...]

Every week I write about one of the Wisconsin Plan participants who came to us for help. I do this so you can understand whom the state of Israel chooses to take action against and also in order to share what is going on in our center in Hadera.
To those who read this every week [...]

The following is a thank you letter from a family RHR helped in to bury one of their members.
As you can see, the man died in Sheikh Saed, but he was a resident of Jabel Mukaber (Sheikh Saed is a neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber although it does not belong to Jerusalem and Jabel Mukaber does) [...]

THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 10, 2008
This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1199964893665&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The left-wing Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) decided on Thursday to sign on to a petition of NGOs expressing concern that the 2009 follow-up conference to the Durban Conference of 2001 could be hijacked by anti-Semitic and anti-Israel parties.
The organization is a trans-denominational [...]

MANY OF THE rabbis present at the Dec. 11 ceremony at Manhattan’s Rodeph Sholom Synagogue for the Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Awards had just returned from staging a protest outside the Israeli Consulate. They had been expressing their outrage over the destruction of yet another Palestinian home, this one the Dari family’s in Arab East [...]

אַשְׁרֵי שֹׁמְרֵי מִשְׁפָּט עֹשֵׂה צְדָקָה בְכָל-עֵת
תהילים קו:ג
Happy are those who act justly, who do right at all times
Psalms 106:3
Rabbis for Human Rights is the rabbinic voice of conscience in Israel.
Rabbis for Human Rights was established with the purpose of giving voice to the Zionist ideal and the Jewish religious tradition of human rights.
Rabbis for Human [...]