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Counterpoint: Rabbis for Human Rights - the 20th anniversary
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR). In many ways, this is a sad occasion for the organization and the original nucleus of rabbis there at its inception. Not long ago, when RHR dedicated its new office, much more spacious than its previous one, I remarked: “We [...]
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- Counterpoint: ‘Us’ and ‘them’
- Counterpoint: An exercise in practical stupidity and moral idiocy
- Counterpoint: A letter to a Jewish leader from abroad
- Counterpoint: What does the religious Right want?
- Counterpoint: Forsaking both soldiers and the downtrodden
- Counterpoint: Pigeonholing rights groups
- Counterpoint: A liberal’s lament
- Truth and Hypocrisy
- Politics Make Strange Bedfellows
- Feed the Hungry
- Trafficking in Women: A Blight on Jewish Decency
- Rabbis for Human Rights receives Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award
- Succot has Universal Meaning
- The Binding of Isaac
- Try a Little Common Sense
- Prisoners are no Asset
- End the Degradation: An appeal to Israel’s new defense minister
- Yes, Birthright journey cheapens the message of Judaism
- Getting beyond name-calling
- Settlers, hands off the olive trees
- MIAs - a failure of political will
- Let’s not turn to anti-Arab racism
- To obey orders, or not
- Forgotten in captivity
- Let PR constrain policy
- Could the Right be right?
- New intifada breeds depression, with no end in sight
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