Rabbis For Human Rights

faculty

"..The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they who do his commandments.."
Psalms 111:10

The Yeshiva program has no set faculty. Rather, experts on a particular topic are invited to give a lecture or lead a text study and discussion. The following RHR rabbis and guests, most of whom donate their time and energy to the project, are among those who have taught sessions:

Rabbi Arik Ascherman
RHR Executive Director

Rabbi Ehud Bandel
founding member of RHR
President of the Masorti (Conservative) Movement in Israel

Eliyahu Bareket, Hebrew University Hillel Director

Shmuel Chen, Director of the Environment at Mifal Chaim ("Lifeline") and at the Ynet Internet portal

Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, student rabbi at Jerusalem’s Schecter Institute of Jewish Studies

Rabbi Tamar Kolberg, rabbi of congregation Ra’anan in Ra’anana

Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, Minerva Center for Human Rights at Hebrew University and former dean of the faculty of law

Rabbi David Lazar, Director of RIKMA and rabbi of the Masorti congregation in Ramat Aviv

Dr. Yair Lorberboim, author of In the Image of God: Theosophy and Law in Classical Judaism and university professor

Rabbi Michael Marmur
Dean of the Jerusalem campus
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Rabbi Uri Regev, a founding member of RHR, founding Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center and currently head of the World Union for Progressive Judaism

Rabbi Peretz Rodman, educator and translator of Jewish texts for Midreshet Iyun, Ta-Shma, and Camp Ramah, among others

Rabbi David Rosen
RHR founding member
leading voice in interfaith dialogue
former Orthodox Chief Rabbi of Ireland and currently the Director of the American Jewish Committee in Israel

Uri Sadeh, Field Coordinator, Counter Trafficking in Women Program
Hotline for Migrant Workers
http://www.hotline.org.il/

Amos Schleishouer, Director of Education for the Feldman Rape Crisis Center

Rabbi Michael Schwartz
Director
RHR’s Yeshiva program

Lea Shakdiel
teacher of feminism
Ben Gurion University and the Schecter Institute

Galia Sedan, student rabbi at Jerusalem’s Hebrew Union College

Esther Sivan, Director of the “Bimkom” organization of Building Planners for Planning Rights

Lilach Tchelnov, editor of RHR’s “Independence Declaration Tractate” education initiative, offering rabbinic commentary on Israel’s Declaration of Independence

Rabbi Diana Villa, Center for Women in Jewish Law and faculty member of the Schecter Institute for Jewish Studies

Dr. Deborah Weissman
Director
Kerem Institute for Teacher Training for Humanistic-Jewish Education.