Do these three guys look dangerous? Apparently, the IDF seems to think they are some kind of subversives or something. In actuality they are Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Director of Special Projects for Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR), Garry Walsh of RHR's partner Trocaire, and yours truly, chairman of the board for RHR. On Tu...
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Adapted from a talk I gave at the opening of the Human Rights Beit Midrash at Hebrew University. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and...
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Jerusalem, November 18, 2011 -- It is utterly appalling that many teenage ultra-Orthodox Jews choose to express their disdain for Christianity by spitting at priests.First, I am appalled that they disdain Christianity, a "sister religion" to Judaism, whose adherents hold our Torah to be Holy Scripture and who worship the same God we do....
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As I write this I am at sea, on my way home to Israel from Egypt (via Rome, which admittedly is the long way, but it’s the route that Herod followed as well). It is also the holiday of Sukkot, which the Torah tells us, “That your generations may know that I made the...
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Originally published by the Jerusalem Post, September 20, 2011. By Rabbi Barry Leff There’s an old joke which illustrates the foolishness of the tag machir (price tag) campaign. A Chinese guy and a Jewish guy are walking along the street, and all of a sudden the Jewish guy punches the Chinese guy in the mouth....
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First published on the Rabbis for Human Rights - North America web site. "And it shall come to pass, if you shall give heed diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command you this day, that the Lord your God will set you...
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