Bring Human Rights Shabbat to Your Community

On Human Rights Shabbat, we celebrate the deep intersections between Judaism and human rights. Since 2008, nearly 500 communities have joined this celebration. Human Rights Shabbat is observed on the Shabbat closest to International Human Rights Day, December 10, which is the anniversary of the UN’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We...
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Ari Witkin

Ari Witkin, a Minneapolis native and Goucher College graduate, is a third year rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Prior to joining the RRC community, he spent 5 years loving living in Baltimore where he worked as a community organizer engaging religious communities in violence prevention and youth advocacy campaigns and as an experiential...
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