Sunday January 20
3-4:15pm pm, Rollins Chapel
Rabbi Arik Ascherman was the executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights for fifteen years. Located in Israel, Rabbis for Human Rights (http://rhr.org.il/eng/index.php/about/) an organization that works to defend the human rights of marginalized communities within Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Rabbi Ascherman currently develops special projects for the organization. He was the co-recipient of both the Gandhi Peace Award in 2010 and, in 2009, the Leibowitz Prize, awarded by the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din. For additional information on Rabbi Ascherman, see the New York Times Op Ed at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/opinion/08kristof.html?_r=0.
