Rabbi Gideon Sylvester, Director of Rabbis for Human Rights' Yeshiva Program
Channel: T'ruah Rabbis
Date: 2010-12-01

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.

Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg's interview with Rabbi Gideon Sylvester, Director of Rabbis for Human Rights' Human Rights Yeshiva Program at Hebrew University.  Recorded on October 23, 2010 during Rabbis for Human Rights-North America's Study Tour to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. 

Rabbi Sylvester is a British Orthodox rabbi who has worked in the Israeli Prime Minister's office as an adviser to the Minister for Diaspora Affairs Rabbi Michael Melchior and Araham Hirschensohn. He has also served as the Executive Director of Yeshivat Torat Yosef-Hamivtar in Efrat and the Tribe Israel Rabbi - acting as Rabbi to all British Jews on long term programmes in israel.

http://www.rhr-na.org/