Rabbis for Human Rights : Making an Enemy into a Friend

By Miriam Rabkin
Contributor to Tolerance.ca®

Rabbi Arik Ascherman is the Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR). The organization which he now leads was founded in 1988 and considers itself to be the “rabbinical voice of conscience in Israel.” With over one hundred ordained rabbis as its members, Rabbis for Human Rights spans the religious Jewish spectrum with members from the Reform, Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstructionist and Renewal streams.

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