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Rabbis for Human Rights
Founded1988
FocusHuman rights activism
Location
  • Jerusalem
Area served
Israel, Palestine
Websitewww.rhr.org.il/eng

Rabbis for Human Rights is an Israeli human rights organization that describes itself as "the rabbinic voice of conscience in Israel, giving voice to the Jewish tradition of human rights".[1]

Their membership includes Reform, Orthodox, Conservative and Reconstructionist rabbis and students. According to their web site, the organization includes "over one hundred ordained rabbis and rabbinical students".[1]

The organization received the Niwano Peace Prize in 2006.[2]

  1. ^ a b Rabbis for Human Rights home page, accessed 27 April 2011.
  2. ^ 'Rabbis For Human Rights' Gets Niwano Peace Prize accessed 30 March 2007

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