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Holy Human Rights Chutzpah
This Shabbat, Dec. 8-9, is not just the weekend before Chanukah; it’s also that of International Human Rights Day. We honor this global holiday, Jewishly, when we reread our sacred stories through a human rights lens. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), a document of great...
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Bringing Holiness to the Front Lines
This discussion guide and text study, created for Human Rights Shabbat 2017 but widely applicable to any time of year, asks us to consider what it means to bring holiness to the front lines of our activism. Also suitable as sermon sparks.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted by the UN on December 10, 1948, is one of the foundational documents of the human rights movement. At T’ruah, we think of it as a modern prophetic text, a vision of the redeemed world where all people’s rights will be protected. Communities who celebrate Human Rights...
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A Prayer for Human Rights
This prayer for human rights by Rabbi David Freidenreich incorporates traditional themes about the creation of every person b’tzelem elohim, in God’s image.
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