Date
Sunday, December 5, 2010 12:00amLocation
Join The Center for Constitutional Rights for Rabbis for Human Rights (North America) third conference on Judaism and Human Rights: HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER FIRE: A JEWISH CALL TO ACTION, which will be held December 5-7 in New York City. Early registration is available until September 30; click here to register or click here to download a registration flier.
This essential gathering will take place at the Conference facility at 130 East 59th Street, New York, NY (click here for a map), and will bring together leading activists, human rights advocates, scholars, journalists and Jewish community leaders. Together, we will wrestle with human rights in the age of Obama and Netanyahu, strengthen our skills as leaders and help train us to further educate and activate more of the Jewish community.
The conference, which is open to all, will include a special pre-conference for rabbinic and cantorial students and will also include a special presentation of the 2010 Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Awards. Both of these events, held on Sunday, December 5th, will be held at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun (86th Street between Broadway and West End Avenues).
Some of our exciting speakers and teachers include:
Naomi Chazan, New Israel Fund
Iain Levine, Human Rights Watch
Peter Beinart, author
Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights
Steven Reisner, Physicians for Human Rights
Steven Xenakis, MD, Brigadier General, Ret. USA
Isaac Luria, J Street
Laura Berry, Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility
Naomi Graetz, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Sharon Kelly McBride, Human Rights First
Uri Zaki, B'tselem
Download a complete conference schedule (as of 11/4/10)
Conference highlights include:
Sunday, December 5: All events held at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun (Upper West Side)
- Student Pre-Conference
- Courage - Voice - Vision: The Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Awards*, Honoring Dr. Naomi Chazan, New Israel Fund and Aryeh Neier, Open Society Institute
- Conference opening plenary: Human Rights Under Fire in the Age of Obama and Netanyahu (includes Chanukah candle lighting)
Monday, December 6: All events held at the conference facility at 130 E. 59th Street.
- Plenary Session: Lost in the Wilderness: Indefinite Detention, Judaism and the Law
- Plenary: Slavery, Trafficking and People of Faith:
In Our Own Backyards and Beyond - A Chanukah for Human Rights
- 3 different breakout slots, including sessions on new media and Israel activism, a showing of the film The Response, learning with RHR rabbis, and more!
Tuesday, December 7: All events held at the conference facility at 130 E. 59th Street.
- Plenary: Israel, Exceptionalism and Human Rights - Peter Beinart, keynote speaker
- Breakfast Briefing: Park51 + The Crisis on Islamaphobia
- 2 different breakout slots, including a safe-space discussion for rabbis on discussing Israel in your community, a conversation about medical personnel and torture (including a report from Guantanamo), learning on Jewish texts and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and more!
Locations:
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun
West 88th Street between Broadway and West End Avenues
Trains: 1/9 to 86th Street
West 88th Street between Broadway and West End Avenues
Trains: 1/9 to 86th Street
Conference Facility
130 East 59th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues
Trains: F/N/R/Q/4/5/6 to Lexington Avenue/59th Street
130 East 59th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues
Trains: F/N/R/Q/4/5/6 to Lexington Avenue/59th Street
Click here for more information and a list of co-sponsors.
Last modified
November 5, 2010