Rabbi Nava Hefetz, Educational Director of Rabbis for Human Rights
Channel: T'ruah Rabbis
Date: 24/12/2010

Rabbis for Human Rights -- North America (RHR-NA) is an organization of rabbis from all streams of Judaism that acts on the Jewish imperative to respect and protect the human rights of all people. Joshua Bloom Director of Online Communications for Rabbis for Human Rights-North America (RHR-NA) interviewed Rabbi Nava Hefetz, Educational Director of Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) in Israel about the human rights education RHR leads in Israel.  The interview was conducted on December 7, 2010 at "Human Rights Under Fire: A Jewish Call to Action," RHR-NA's third conference on Judaism and Human Rights. 

In the interview, Rabbi Hefetz described RHR's human rights education programs. She discussed in detail RHR's educational activities with pre-military academies students, with soldiers, with university students in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv through their Human Rights Yeshivot and with Jewish and Bedouin women attending Sapir College in the Negev through RHR's Citizen for Equality Program which focuses on the status of women in the public sphere and the religious sphere. Rabbi Hefetz also talked about RHR's curriculum on Tractate Independence, a resource the organization developed that uses a Talmudic approach to study human rights commitments contained in Israel's Declaration of Independence.