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The Rabbis for Human Rights Yeshiva A program combining weekly study and volunteer fieldwork for Israeli University students promoting Jewish values in defense of human rights overview"..The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they who do his commandments.."Psalms 111:10 RHR’s Yeshiva program encourages respect for human rights and social justice; furthers knowledge of the Jewish tradition and the pluralistic approach to its study and application; and creates a group of young Israelis dedicated to Jewish values in defense of human rights. introduction
A yeshiva program for the study
of Jewish values in defense of human rights where traditional and modern texts
are brought to bear on questions of human rights and pressing social issues
confronting Israel today. .
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Empowering students toward leadership
and involvement in defending human rights and working for social and economic
justice..
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Experts on a particular topics
are invited to give a lecture or lead a text study and discussion
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RHR strives to recruit an eclectic
group of students: those already actively engaged in human rights work, students
from a religious background, secular students, and students representing a variety
of Israel’s ethnic and political configurations.
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The basis for a Jewish vision
of human rights and study focusing on those aspects of Jewish behavior that
define who we are as a People and as individual Jews..
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evening of study
A sample of a stimulating session
on our ongoing consideration of the idea that humans are created in the Divine
Image..
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RHR’s Yeshiva program attracts
motivated and capable students. It is essential that we make their participation
possible by providing a stipend.
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The individuals and groups who
have generously shared their resources in order to provide scholarships and
materials...
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Quotes from particiapnts in the
yeshiva program on the relevance of the study of judaic sources of human rights
in our day and age...
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