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Qorah: Human Rights for Heavens Sake
The dramatic story of the rebellion against Moses and Aaron in the desert that appears in this week’s Torah reading became a significant symbol in the teachings of the rabbinic sages. The saying from Pirkei Avot (Chpt. 5, 17) is well known:
A controversy for Heaven’s sake will have lasting value, but a controversy not for [...]
Previous Stories
- Counterpoint: Forsaking both soldiers and the downtrodden
- BeMidbar: Human Rights and The Triumph of God’s Hope
- Behar: Proclaiming liberty throughout the land
- Emor: Promise, Justice, Non-violence, and Peace
- Tractate Independence
- Durban 1: What really happened at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
- Rabbi Ben Hollander zekher tzadik livrakha
- Vayhi: The End was Hidden from Him
- Miqqez: Recognition & Rejection
- Response to Haaretz investigation
- Noah: Righteousness in Our Generation
- Counterpoint: A liberal’s lament
- Yitro/Meira welt
- JURY AND BEIT DIN - DEVAR TORAH FOR SHABBAT MISHPATIM
- Dvar Torah Parashat Vayikra
- Dvar Torah – Parashat Pinchas
- Truth and Hypocrisy
- Arik Ascherman: Rabbi-activist for the rights of Israelis, Palestinians, and foreign workers in Israel
- Behar: Not standing idly by
- The work that we do is not fun: Tikkun Olam and Human Rights
- Emor – Justice and equality for all
- Politics Make Strange Bedfellows
- Passover, The Omer and Human Rights
- Ki Tisa: Love, Justice and Righteousness
- Rabbis for Human Rights Founders Receive Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award
- Mishpatim: Jury and Beit Din
- Fakhri El-Diab Arrested
- Yitro: Being sensitive to other’s rights and human dignity
- Trafficking in Women: A Blight on Jewish Decency
- Chanukah: Protecting and restoring religious values
- Rabbis for Human Rights receives Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award
- Darkness has struck again
- Our Mission
- Hayye Sara: Needs common to all humanity
- Lekh-Lekha: Living up to the moral heritage that Avraham and Sarah have bequeathed us
- Noah: The Nature of Evil
- Professor Aviezer Ravitzky is seriously injured
- Rabbi Max Warschawski zt”l
- Rabbis for Human Rights
- Shofetim: Human Rights as the secret of Jewish existence
- Eqev: Human Rights and equality
- Rabbis for Human Rights activists succeed in influencing changes to the Israeli Wisconsin Program
- RHR rabbis and volunteers visit the bomb-shelters in Qiriat Bialik
- Tisha Bav: Justice, Law and Righteousness
- Shabbat Hazon: What we must do to improve our situation
- Devarim: Act with tzedakah and mishpat in all that we do
- Try a Little Common Sense
- Prisoners are no Asset
- Pinehas: Fanaticism and peace between man and his neighbor and between the nation and God.
- Prof. Shlomo Avineri discusses Israel Citizenship Law with Rabbis For Human Rights
- RHR succeeds in modifying the the Omnibus Law of Arrangements (Economic Arrangements Bill)
- Why I Will Demonstrate
- High Court: Palestinians must have access to lands
- Insecurity: When the bearers of democracy lose it for the sake of security
- Shavuot: A world based on righteousness, justice, goodness, mercy and faithfulness.
- Bemidbar: Reaching out to the ones we would normally turn away
- Behar: A vision of a just and caring society
- Behuqqotay: Respect the moral order
- End the Degradation: An appeal to Israel’s new defense minister
- Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann Keynotes at the Symposium of Peace and Religion
- Rabbi Maayan Turner accepts the 2006 Niwano Peace Prize on behalf of RHR
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Peace and Religion: The greatest gift we can bestow our children from our rich religious teachings
- Pride and Humility: Decry the abuses of power and the injustices of our country
- Finance Minister Abraham Hirchson’s Speech to the Knesset Plenum – State Budget and Arrangements Law for 2006
- Yes, Birthright journey cheapens the message of Judaism
- Qedoshim: Striving to be holy
- Behar: From Slavery to Freedom
- Dialogue with the Presbyterian Church USA
- Biur Hametz: Food items to those in need
- Shabbat HaGadol: Peace begins at home
- Getting beyond name-calling
- Miqqez: It is not too late to renew and fulfill the promises of old
- Settlers, hands off the olive trees
- Let’s not turn to anti-Arab racism
- Lekh-Lekha: Acts of Conversion-Save the Life of My Child
- Sukkoth: Peace, justice, involvement and caring for all people
- Ki-Teze: We must stand in the breach and make sure that nobody is left behind
- Shofetim: Pursue justice through mitzvot of commission
- Mas’e: Expulsion, Democracy and Civil Disobedience
- Mattot: Find the formulas allowing all of us to have our basic Human Rights and needs met.
- To obey orders, or not
- Balaq: We cannot negotiate for peace on the one hand and violate Human Rights on the other
- Huqqat: Thinking Before Speaking
- Beha’alotekha: Critical mass and individual responsibility
- The rabbi who pricks Israel’s conscience
- Rabbi convicted for blocking demolition
- Preventing Home Demolitions
- There Is A Kippah In The Rubble
- Let PR constrain policy
- Could the Right be right?
- New intifada breeds depression, with no end in sight
- Rabbi Max Warschawski zt”l and the Petit Séminaire Israélite de Limoges
- Vayyishlah: Pride and Innocence
- Rabbi Max Warschawski zt”l and Rabbi Abraham Deutsch zt”l
- Declaration on Judaism and Human Rights
