Human Rights
While Jews in America today enjoy unprecedented religious and political freedom, innocent men, women and children around the globe are deprived of such freedoms and are subject to gross and indecent abuses of their most basic human rights, sometimes by their own government. As a people who were ourselves enslaved, we embrace our responsibility to speak for those who cannot be spoken for, to defend the defenseless, and to protect the innocent. To this end, we must speak out about the unfathomable human rights violations which dominate so many regions of the globe.
Human rights are in peril around the world and here in our own back yard. December 12-13 marks the anniversary of the United Nations’ passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Join Jewish groups in bringing light to these issues by holding a Human Rights Shabbat on that weekend or any other weekend of your choosing.
Human Rights Issues are covered on the following RAC issue pages:
