50:50 Startups
50:50 Startups brings Palestinian and Israeli entrepreneurs together as equal partners to build cross-border startups rooted in innovation, collaboration, and mutual respect.
Bringing Jewish tradition into the struggle for human rights.
Rabbis for Human Rights describes itself as “the Jewish voice on human rights.”
Founded in 1988, the organization brings together more than 170 rabbis, rabbinical students, and rabbinic leaders from across Jewish denominations and rabbinical schools in Israel. Its members include community rabbis, educators, and rabbis in public roles who work to bring both practical and conceptual change into Israeli society.
Their Role in Civil Society
Rabbis for Human Rights occupies a distinctive place in Israeli civil society: it speaks about human rights in Jewish religious language.
The organization works in Israel and in the occupied territories, raising public awareness, cooperating with human rights organizations, and pressing state institutions to address violations of basic rights. Its work focuses on vulnerable groups, minorities in Israel, Palestinians in the occupied territories, and others whose rights to healthcare, shelter, education, and a minimal standard of living are at risk.
What makes Rabbis for Human Rights unusual is not only what it defends, but where its voice comes from. The organization draws on Jewish humanistic tradition alongside international human rights conventions, insisting that Jewish tradition carries a responsibility toward the stranger, the different, and the vulnerable.
Mission
Rabbis for Human Rights is the voice of Jewish tradition in the field of human rights. The organization works to make the Israeli public aware of human rights violations and to pressure state institutions to rectify injustice. Its work is rooted in the belief that every person is created in the image of God, and that this belief obligates Jews to protest injustice inflicted on any human being and to prevent it wherever possible.
