כל מי שאפשר למחות לאנשי ביתו ולא מיחה נתפס על אנשי ביתו באנשי עירו נתפס על אנשי עירו בכל העולם כולו נתפס על כל העולם כולו

שבת נד ע”ב

“Whoever is able to protest against transgressors within their own family, community, or even the entire world, and yet fails to do so, that person is punished for the transgressions of their family, their community, or of the entire world.”
Talmud: Shabbat 54b

Economic and Social Justice

Click here to learn how Rabbis for Human Rights organizes local communities in their struggle for just economic policies; lobbies in the Knesset to ensure adequate budgetary allocations for the needy; and helps increase public awareness of the plight of the poor while stressing society’s responsibility toward them in light of the Jewish tradition.

Minority Rights

Click here to learn how Rabbis for Human Rights works with its coalition partners to secure recognition of the Negev Bedouin settlements on their ancestral lands, including rights to education and health services, as well as infrastructures for water and electricity.

Click here to learn how Rabbis for Human Rights has worked to safeguard the holy places of all religions, stresses the rights of Arab Israelis in its work on economic justice, and lobbies for the fair distribution of infrastructure and education funds.

Indentured Servants

Click here to learn how Rabbis for Human Rights has worked to guarantee health care and education to foreign workers and their families, campaigned for legislation to prevent abuse by employers, pressed for adequate law enforcement of foreign workers’ rights, and sought redress for abuse suffered by workers at the hands of their employers.

Women’s Rights

Click here to learn how Rabbis for Human Rights works with a coalition of organizations to fight the epidemic of trafficking in women and promote creative solutions to the problem in Israel of agunot (women denied religious divorce).

Interfaith Dialogue

Click here to learn how Rabbis for Human Rights works to create dialogue and joint activities with Christian, Muslim, Druze, and Jewish religious leaders.

Defense of Palestinian Human Rights

Click Here to learn how Rabbis for Human Rights works to attain justice for those who have been separated from their homes, families, places of employment and their lands.

Preventing Home Demolitions

Click here to learn how Rabbis for Human Rights works to prevent demolitions through education, lobbying, legal appeal, publicity, protest and, as a last resort, civil disobedience.

Agricultural Access

Click here to learn how Rabbis for Human Rights helps guarantee Palestinians’ access to their trees while reducing the number of violent incidents and acts of theft and vandalism during the harvest season.

Separation Barrier

Click here to learn how Rabbis for Human Rights works to oppose the route of the Separation Barrier where it unnecessarily expropriates lands, cuts people off from their fields, divides villages or surrounds them.