Through its work on human rights education, Rabbis For Human Rights is committed to raising awareness of the basic rights and responsibilities that each individual possesses and to building a culture of respect for human rights.
Rabbis for Human Rights has created a Talmudic-style commentary on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. The program emphasizes themes that address the nature of the Jewish State: equality, democracy, ecology, religion and state, treatment of minorities, human rights obligations, and more. The project reaches thousands of Israeli school children, college students, and adult learners.
Between Yom HaAtzmaut until a week after Shavuot RHR is organizing study sessions on “Masekhet Atzmaut,” (Our Talmudic style and intergenerational commentary on Megilat HaAtzmaut)
For those who would like to teach, there will be training sessions on the 1st of June in Ra’anana from Kehilat Raanan, tel: 09-7740311 from 10:00-14:00.
We are interested in hiring a person to help organize study sessions in yeshivot and other Orthodox institutions.
If you are interested in participating in a study session, teaching or inviting us to teach in your community, please call the office, 02-6482756
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"Wash you, make you clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes, cease to do evil...learn to do well...seek judgement...relieve the oppressed...judge the fatherless...plead for the widow"
"..Do not steal from the
poor, for they are oppressed, nor should you oppress the
downtrodden.."
"..Thou shalt neither vex
a stranger, nor oppress him..If thou at all afflict them, &
they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry.."
"..Woe to them that devise
iniquity..taking them by violence; & houses, & take them
away: so they oppress a man & his house, even a man & his
heritage.."