human rights

Felice Gaer, Jewish organization official who championed human rights for all, dies at 78

The director of the American Jewish Committee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights sought to balance the universal and the particular.

Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library (Wikimedia Commons)

Yeshiva U students file discrimination complaint over college’s refusal to approve LGBTQ student group

The YU Alliance. a student-run organization that does not receive funding from the student councils, currently holds LGBTQ-related events off-campus.

Orthodox rabbi and daughter of Tom Lantos named to controversial US human rights commission

An attempt to define human rights in the context of foreign policy is dividing conservatives and liberals.

Global

Israeli law professor will head UN Human Rights Committee

Israel

US human rights report drops phrase ‘occupied territories’ in section on Israel

Politics

Over 600 rabbis, cantors sign pledge to hold Trump administration accountable for human rights

Global

Netanyahu seeks to punish Israeli NGO for UN remarks

Global

Cuban Jewish leader: Obama’s visit a ‘transcendental moment’

Global

Jewish Brazilian federal judge honored by B’nai B’rith

United States

Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2 others awarded Lantos Human Rights Prize

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