Posted by Rachel Barenblat. Categories: Events, I Am a Rabbi for Human Rights
on Dec 8th, 2010 | Comments Off
Over at Velveteen Rabbi, I just posted a links roundup which includes links to the eight posts I made during the conference — a total of somewhere around 25,000 words! (You can find that roundup here, or you can simply browse this blog — or that one — to read the posts one by one.)
I also shared this: throughout the conference, Joshua Bloom was recording videos of participants talking about why we are rabbis for human rights. I meant to go and speak briefly on camera about why I’m a rabbinic student for human rights, but I didn’t manage to; the last session I attended ran...
Posted by Rachel Barenblat. Categories: Events, Israel, West Bank
on Dec 7th, 2010 | Comments Off
The final session of the conference is a plenary session: Israel, Exceptionalism, Human Rights and the Road Ahead. The session has two parts. In Part 1, our speakers are Peter Beinart, Author; Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, RHR-NA Co-Chair; and Jane Eisner, The Forward.
Peter Beinart
“It’s a great honor to be here,” says Peter Beinart. After his piece in the New York Review of Books (The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment) came out, someone asked “have there been a lot of angry words, ad hominem attacks, that kind of thing?” and his response was, “you mean, outside...
Posted by Rachel Barenblat. Categories: Events, Israel, West Bank
on Dec 7th, 2010 | Comments Off
The Most Pressing Human Rights Issues In Israel with Rabbi Paul (Shaul) Feinberg, RHR Israel.
“It’s clear what’s wrong,” says Rabbi Shaul Feinberg; “I want to talk about what’s right.” He calls back to what Naomi Chazan said on the first night; the issue is the Occupation, of course, and he will have things to say about that. Reconciliation, he agrees with Chazan, is necessary.
The head of Israeli military intelligence in the 1970s and 80s (whose name I didn’t catch) was the first to publish the Palestinian national covenant — and we all remember...
Posted by Rachel Barenblat. Categories: Events, West Bank
on Dec 7th, 2010 | 1 comment
Breakout Session: From the Frontlines: Perspectives on RHR’s Work in the West Bank , featuring Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann, RHR Israel.
Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann
Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann begins with a word of Torah from Perek ha-Shalom, a text which tells us that the world stands on three things: on din (law/judgement), emet, truth, and shalom, peace. Another voice argues that justice, truth and peace — they’re all one thing. If justice is done, truth is done, then we have created peace. The prophet Zechariah adds, “in all places where there is justice, there is peace — and...
Posted by Rachel Barenblat. Categories: Events, United States
on Dec 7th, 2010 | Comments Off
I co-led shacharit this morning with Rabbi Oren Postrel (thanks, Oren!), so I arrived a bit breathless to the Breakfast Briefing: Park51 + The Crisis on Islamophobia. The session featured Rabbi Joy Levitt, The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan; Reverend Chloe Breyer, Interfaith Center of New York; Daisy Khan, American Society for Muslim Advancement; and Rabbi Gerry Serotta, Clergy Beyond Borders.
(L to R) RHR-NA Co-Chairs Rabbi Charles Feinberg and Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, Rev. Chloe Breyer, Daisy Khan, Rabbi Joy Levitt and Rabbi Gerry Serotta.
Rabbi Gerry Serotta
Rabbi Gerry Serotta begins by...
